Getting the HP tx2000z to work [Archive]

TorchlightJay

February 26th, 2008, 08:28 PM

So i got a tx2000z not too long ago, ordered it the day it came out. At first I wanted to throw it out the window but now I have gotten it to work just fine with Linux after about a month of working on it.

Here is what I had problems with:
-Audio (Headphone jack didn't work)
-Wireless
-Lightscribe
-Wacom
-Fingerprint Reader

And now all works (except wacom).

I couldn't for the life of me get Gutsy Gibbon to work so I took a chance and tried the Alpha 5 version of Hardy Heron. Though it is an alpha, for the most part it is pretty steady. You have to do some upgrades at first but it works. You can get the iso at
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/alpha-5/hardy-desktop-i386.iso

Now you are installed. let's get working on the sound.

This is a really simple fix. Go to your terminal and type:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base
and at the end add "options snd-hda-intel model=hp" to the bottom of the file and save it. Now type:
sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
Now your sound should work.

WIRELESS
Ndiswrapper is your best bet here. In synaptic and install ndiswrapper-common, ndiswrapper-utils-1.9, and cabextract. Those will help. Now I have tried a lot of drivers and this one gave me the best luck:
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqnk/us/download/24001.html

In the terminal navigate to the file you downloaded the file to and type:
sudo cabextract sp34152.exe
sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo depmod -a
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

and you will want to do a "sudo gedit /etc/modules" and add ndiswrapper to the end of it. That will make ndiswrapper open on boot.
That's Wireless.

Fingerprint Reader:
just use this site. Everything I tell you will be verbatim to it.
http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Main_Page
download the files, there are some dependencies you may have to get from synaptic.

Lightscribe:
Go to these sites to install lightscribe utility and drivers.
http://www.lightscribe.com/downloadSection/linux/index.aspx
--You just need the system software and simple labeler --
http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803
-- third party labeler for lightscribe --

Webcam:
http://linux-uvc.berlios.de/
That sight has all you need.

WACOM
Bad news guys, at this time linuxwacom doesn't support our type of Tablet PCs. Let me explain. Older tablet PCs with Wacom active digitizers used to be ported to the serial port. Newer ones are ported to the usb (use "lsusb" code to see for yourself) and linuxwacom doesn't yet support tablet PCs with their wacom mapped to their USB port.
"Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
tells the driver to dialog with the tablet the Tablet PC
way. Right now we only support serial Tablet PC. It is a
special Wacom IV protocol, called ISDV4 protocol. This
option is mandatory for Tablet PC."

However the news isn't all bad. I read the development pages and they are working on it.

Synaptics:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Once you do that upgrade after installing Alpha 5, it should start working (or at least it did for me). The newer kernel (2.6.24-10-generic) works really well.
You can also install gsynaptics and configure it with a nice gui.

NVIDIA
install nvidia-glx-new from synaptic, it'll work fine.

Screen Rotation:
These tutorials helped me.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2
http://intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html

and also make sure xrandr is installed (Synaptic)

OKAY
So ya, that is what i did. Sorry if it's not too detailed but that is what I did in a nutshell. Everything seems to work. Feel free to ask me if you have questions or comments. If anyone has any advice regarding this, I am willing to listen. Thanks all.

pAt84

March 14th, 2008, 05:46 PM

Could you be more specific on the webcam? I downloaded the uvc and compiled it but I still dont get the webcam to work in skype?

Pat

ACLBandit

March 15th, 2008, 04:22 PM

Thank you so much for this post! This computer isn't exactly being my new best friend.

However, you DID get my sound going. Which means, luckily enough, I have music while I tinker. ^^ So thank you LOTS for that.

Did you do anything else with wireless, though? That's the last thing I need before I can call this thing "acceptable," and I cannot get it to work for anything. My little wireless switch is very happily displaying its LED a neon red color, and in the (much-more-shrunken-and-formatted/reinstalled) Vista boot it's a happy blue.

Also, you said that your wacom actually worked? Where/how did you install the necessary utilities, and where would I pass the forced serial options ("Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4")?

pAt84

March 16th, 2008, 06:24 AM

No, he did not get the Wacom to work. It is just formulated a little unclear. ;)

As for your wireless problem. Which release of Ubuntu are you using? Gutsy? Did you already try using ndiswrapper? The following guide might be what you are looking for: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff

As for me I am using Gutsy and I actually had to compile the newest ndiswrapper to make it work. Let me know if the above guide helps you out. If not try to compile the newest ndiswrapper and give an update please.

Pat

TorchlightJay

March 17th, 2008, 01:24 PM

I had to compile the newest ndiswrapper as well (1.52 if I am not mistaken). I am not using Gutsy however, I am using Hardy Heron Alpha. IT is working pretty well. I just had horrible luck with Gutsy but Hardy seems to work seemlessly (minus the wacom issue).

pAt84

March 17th, 2008, 01:59 PM

It worked pretty nice for me on Gutsy. I had to recompole ndiswrapper and alsa but that was basically it.

TorchlightJay, could you be more specific on the webcam? I downloaded the uvc and compiled it but I still dont get the webcam to work in skype?

TorchlightJay

March 17th, 2008, 02:03 PM

well what I did in addition (forgot to mention it) was install webcam, webcamd and that seemed to help me a lot. I haven't tried it too often but I did have a point where it took pictures of me

ACLBandit

March 17th, 2008, 03:04 PM

I had to compile the newest ndiswrapper as well (1.52 if I am not mistaken)

Wonderful-- I just used the one from the repositories, so I'll try a compile of the newest version of ndiswrapper.

Also, sorry about the misread on your wacom. But they are working on that currently, as I think you said, so we won't have to wait long ^_^

EDIT: I compiled the newest version and installed the driver you recommended, but it didn't seem to do anything. Running "ndiswrapper -l" returns "bcmwl5: driver installed." However, if I install the bcmwl6, it says "driver installed, hardware present." Either way, it doesn't matter, sadly enough, because it doesn't turn the wireless on. No options for it under any networking tools, and my happy little switch is still an angry orange-red.

By the way, I am on the recommended Hardy Heron alpha, although it is alpha 6. Will that affect anything?

Any tips? :(

TorchlightJay

March 17th, 2008, 03:54 PM

Ya, I am using alpha 6 now too.

Are you on kernel 2.6.24-11? That one has a bug on it that keeps broadcom from working, even if you are using ndiswrapper.

The most recent version is 2.6.24-12, do an upgrade and see what happens (of course assuming that you haven't already).

The file I listed is the one that worked for me. I searched all over the web for a variety of drivers and that one gave me the best luck. Almost all of them said that the driver was installed and hardware was present but only that one got me a bluelight.

make sure to add ndiswrapper to your /etc/modules file.

also do a "depmod -a" and a "modprobe ndiswrapper"

You may have to do "rmmod ndiswrapper" and then do the steps listed above to remove old ndiswrapper modules and load the newer ones.

pAt84

March 17th, 2008, 04:05 PM

Did you remove the old ndiswrapper before compiling the new one? Did you also remove all wireless drivers in ndiswrapper before doing that?

Just to be sure, did you run 'sudo modprobe ndiswrapper' after installing the driver?

well what I did in addition (forgot to mention it) was install webcam, webcamd and that seemed to help me a lot. I haven't tried it too often but I did have a point where it took pictures of me
Thanks man, that really did it.

Pat

ACLBandit

March 17th, 2008, 04:35 PM

The file I listed is the one that worked for me. I searched all over the web for a variety of drivers and that one gave me the best luck. Almost all of them said that the driver was installed and hardware was present but only that one got me a bluelight.

So I did the rmmod ndiswrapper, ran a make uninstall, and apt-get remove ndiswrapper-*.

I then reinstalled from source, and installed bcmwl5. It still stated hardware was no present, but I continued. After following the rest of the steps precisely, I rebooted and was greeted with... absolutely nothing :(

The light is still red. What else can I try?

(by the way, I did try flipping the switch on just to make sure, but I still got nothin' :( )

TorchlightJay

March 17th, 2008, 05:01 PM

Let's start from the beginning.

remove ndiswrapper from source and from synaptic.

install ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/
and be sure to read the README file when you get ready to install.

Now once you are done installing, rmmod ndiswrapper.

Look for the sp34152.exe driver. (You can do a google search). Cabextract it and install bcmwl5.inf via ndiswrapper. Then you type ndiswrapper -m and "depmod -a" then "modprobe ndiswrapper". Also, add ndiswrapper to /etc/modules. That should get you working.

Make srue you are on a decent kernel as well because 2.6.24-11 doesn't like broadcom.

ACLBandit

March 17th, 2008, 05:26 PM

Nope, still nothing, sadly enough.

However, I did think of something. Here is the entry for my Ubuntu in the menu.lst:

title Ubuntu hardy (development branch), kernel 2.6.24-12-generic
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic root=UUID=1d05117b-67d2-473c-927e-ea5a090cb47a ro quiet splash noapic irqpoll
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-12-generic
quiet

Notice the kernel arguments I'm passing, "noapic" and "irqpoll". I have no idea why those are there. I remember adding both of them, but I have no clue why. To be honest, I don't even know what either of them do. I'm going to try booting without those, and see what happens. But if that sheds any light on my situation, just lemme know.

Also, if this doesn't work, who can recommend a nice, small, compatible USB wireless network adapter for my laptop while I'm elsewhere? :)

pAt84

March 17th, 2008, 06:43 PM

I doubt your problem is connected to the boot parameters.

If you have time you might want to try a complete reinstall and after a fresh install compiling ndiswrapper and adding the version5-driver. Chances might be that you just messed up your system too much with all the installations you did.

Do me a favor and give me what 'ndiswrapper -v' gives you. Also tell us the exact model name (I, for example, am on a tx2050eg) please. Last but not least do 'lspci' please. Do you get the following line?

Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

Which Ubuntu version are you on? 32 or 64bit?

Pat

ACLBandit

March 17th, 2008, 08:27 PM

Yes, I was actually considering a fresh install just to be certain, interestingly enough. I'll do that if I can't fix this.

I am on Ubuntu Hardy Heron Alpha 6 32-bit.

This is a tx2000z.

lscpi returns:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)

This means that I don't have the exact same card as you-- I believe that I opted for the one without 'n' support, actually. Yikes.

ndiswrapper -v
ndiswrapper -v
utils version: '1.9', utils version needed by module: '1.9'
module details:
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.24-12-generic/misc/ndiswrapper.ko
version: 1.52
vermagic: 2.6.24-12-generic SMP mod_unload 586

ACLBandit

March 17th, 2008, 09:03 PM

HAHA!!! Finally, I have it. I didn't have to do a fresh install-- your 'lspci' listing got me off looking for posts that were about that specific card, rather than this specific computer model. I would up on a forum archive where someone had the same issue. It was solved with a driver from dell.

So, if you happen to have this computer and you can't get the wireless running, see what the 'lspci' command returns. If it says
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)
Then download this: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.exe.

Afterwards, you'll have to run the program with wine (sorry, guys) to extract the files from the exe. After the program has run until the point where it tries to begin its install and then fails, just follow the steps provided elsewhere in this post, only for the bcmwl5 file under the "DRIVER" folder which was just created by the R174291.exe file. Make sure to remove the other drivers first.

Pat, Jay, thanks a lot for helping me through this two-day-long and rather nasty wireless ordeal ^_^

pAt84

March 18th, 2008, 08:35 AM

Nice.

Did one of you get the remote to work nicely? It basically works out of the box but I would like to map different buttons to different things. for instance I can not control vlc with it and there is not really a config file for lirc for it.

Pat

ACLBandit

March 18th, 2008, 10:27 PM

I got it to do everything I wanted it to do, yeah. It basically emulates keyboard functions, so it worked out of the box.

I set my default media player under System-->Preferences--> Preferred Applications as xine-ui, and then set the button for DVD to open the default media player under the System-->Preferences-->Keyboard Shortcuts.

In the shortcuts window I also set the next/previous track buttons and the volume increase buttons. I set the Windows button on the remote to open a terminal. The weird arrow-circle button, since I didn't know what it was really for, also ejects my CD drive.

To get the media buttons to work in Amarok, I downloaded the "Gnome Multimedia Keys" script found here:
http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Gnome+Multimedia+Keys?content=60910
and then installed it.

Voila! Sexy remote ^_^

TorchlightJay

March 19th, 2008, 01:21 PM

Sounds good. Just one quick question, how did you know which buttons were which when setting it up? That is where it all fell apart for me. I am using KDE btw.

ACLBandit

March 19th, 2008, 02:55 PM

I am using KDE btw.

Yikes. I know absolutely nothing about KDE; I mean, I booted Knoppix a couple of times back when I was on Fedora and it wasn't a live-bootable OS, and Knoppix was KDE, but anything I had learned there has since been forgotten since switching to Ubuntu and always having a live-bootable GNOME system.

I do know, however, that in GNOME, under the Keyboard shortcuts menu, you just click on the action you want and then press the remote button that you want to do this action. Perhaps KDE has something similar?

Also, if you happen to use Amarok, you can set up global hotkeys from one of the menus in the program, and I do know for a fact that those settings can be edited by simply pressing the remote button you wish to use.

I hope this helps; if not, I'm sorry.

TorchlightJay

March 20th, 2008, 11:45 AM

Got it working. Just went straight into KDE Control Center and set the keys. Everything is cool now.

ACLBandit

March 20th, 2008, 03:00 PM

Wonderful. Glad to hear you got it working. By the way, how do you set keys up in VLC? Its interface isn't exactly the friendliest when it comes to custom keymappings...

Also, how will I know when the wacom will work? What is the specific name of the device which will need to be supported by Linux Wacom in order to make it work?

TorchlightJay

March 22nd, 2008, 09:58 PM

linuxwacom.org is the site to keep watch on. Look up Tablet PCs on it and it will list when it allows for USB enabled Tablet PCs. That's what we are lacking.

As for VLC, you need to probably look that up on their website. I am not too sure since I never use it.

TomtheWombat

April 2nd, 2008, 01:10 PM

I will be the owner of a new tx2000z in a few days. Hopefully the Wacom is working soon. The Lenovo T61t has a serial touch screen/digitizer and that still isn't working in linux without patching sources and recompiling. I guess that we are all in this together, though!

Has anybody got the native broadcom wireless driver working for this laptop?

ACLBandit

April 2nd, 2008, 06:39 PM

I wouldn't bother with the native drivers--the ndiSwrapper method is easy if you follow the steps in this post-- make sure to run lspci to ensure you have the same card as one of us, though.

TomtheWombat

April 13th, 2008, 03:49 PM

Luckily, a patch is being worked on specifically for our laptop. (Thank HP for rock bottom prices.)

Bugtracker:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1593330&group_id=69596&atid=525127?

Discussion:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=4b5e638b0804090734t490442e8j c44da60df301e580%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=linuxwacom-devel

I haven't had the time to monkey-fart with it this weekend. I wish you luck!

TomtheWombat

April 14th, 2008, 01:41 PM

WARNING: Your wacom digitizer will stop working every single time the kernel or xorg gets updated if you use this script. Even worse, Xorg will refuse to start if newly installed libraries aren't compatible with the ones that you compiled!!

UPDATE: I updated this post. The new patch now includes touch screen support!!!

UPDATE: Now includes eraser support and fixes the side button.

If your cursor is laggy on the screen, then you are going to need to add noapic, noirqdebug, and irqpoll to your boot parameters. This will also fix the other usb issues that you may be experiencing.

First you are going to need to download the latest development version of linuxwacom (http://linuxwacom.sf.net):

wget http://internap.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.7.9-11.tar.bz2

You will also need Andrew's unified patch (http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1593330&group_id=69596&atid=525127?):

wget -O usbtx2000z.patch http://linuxwacom.pastebin.com/pastebin.php?dl=f3d5b9e73

You will need a proper development environment::

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev

Now it is time to extract, patch, compile, and install. I personally add the configure option --prefix=/usr instead of /usr/local. You have to manually install the kernel driver. FYI: If kernel versions change, then things may break.

tar xjvf linuxwacom-0.7.9-11.tar.bz2
cd linuxwacom-0.7.9-11
patch -p1 < ../usbtx2000z.patch
./configure --enable-wacom
make
sudo make install
sudo rmmod wacom
sudo cp src/2.6.24/wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
sudo depmod -e
sudo modprobe wacom
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom

Now you are ready to edit your xorg.conf! Run the following command to load it up:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Now you are going to have to add sections for the Wacom input device.

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button
# Option "TopX" "225"
# Option "TopY" "122"
# Option "BottomX" "26365"
# Option "BottomY" "16488"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus2"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus3"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
EndSection

and you will need to add the devices to your server layout:

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen "Default Screen"
Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
Inputdevice "TabletPCStylus"
Inputdevice "TabletPCStylus2"
Inputdevice "TabletPCStylus3"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection

There is a calibration script at http://www.stanford.edu/~gi1242/per/opensource/hp2710p/. It doesn't really work well because it calibrates all devices at once. Therefore your touch screen gets the same calibration as your stylus.

EDITED 04/17 to use a unified patch for the digitizer AND touchscreen.
EDITED 04/20 to include eraser support and fix the side button.
EDITED 04/27 to point to the right devices in xorg.conf.

TorchlightJay

April 14th, 2008, 07:37 PM

That's awesome. I don't know how gutsy I am to try that out but I may just do that in a few. Hopefully this will eventually get working to the way we all want it.

TomtheWombat

April 14th, 2008, 07:46 PM

There isn't really much chance of breaking anything. I wouldn't reccomend doing it yet unless you want to help figure things out, though. The stylus is pretty much useless with the lag and lack of calibration.

TomtheWombat

April 14th, 2008, 08:17 PM

In order to eliminate the lag, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and add the parameters 'irqpoll noirqdebug' to the main kernel you boot off of right behind noapic. This will also enable your usb2.0 ports :)

P.S. I missed linux the past week!

ACLBandit

April 16th, 2008, 10:50 PM

I followed your nifty steps, and I can now use my touchscreen! The cursor is EXTREMELY wonky, and that calibration script, as you said, doesn't really do anything at all. However, it's much better than it has been! Thanks a lot, and keep us posted about this! ^_^

EDIT: I lied to you just now-- after restarting the X Server (which I failed to do-- way to follow instructions!), it works just as wonderfully as it does in windows. I can't wait to start using a REAL OS for my note-taking.

However, one feature of Vista that I did like (it's pretty much the only one) was that nifty handwriting-to-text thingy. Is there something like that I could use the same way for linux?

ACLBandit

April 16th, 2008, 11:04 PM

Also, ANOTHER wicked thing I just found (though you may have already discovered it) is that NVidia cards have 90-degree rotation options; this way, you can use your touchscreen in the "sideways mode" just like in that failure of an OS you keep on your other partition! ^_^

Make your device section look like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "RandRRotation" "on"
EndSection

Basically, the "Option" line is all you need to add. After restarting X, you can easily enter these commands:

xrandr -o left
xrandr -o right
xrandr -o normal

and they will flip your monitor in the respective direction. I made 2 shorcuts on my taskbar that flip left and then back to normal.

Now I've just gotta figure out how to flip the wacom, because it does WEIRD STUFF in rotated screen mode

ACLBandit

April 17th, 2008, 08:03 AM

Also, does anyone have the right-click button working? On mine, it acts like the "middle click" of regular mice.

TomtheWombat

April 17th, 2008, 09:19 AM

I'm not sure what is going on with the middle click thing. That is fairly odd behavior, because you don't even have to touch the screen. Other people have reported similar issues, though.

TomtheWombat

April 17th, 2008, 09:25 AM

Use 'cellwritier' for handwriting input. It isn't great, but it works. One issue is that you can't right click to change things to the correct letters.

I really miss OneNote and Office 2007 in general. It really is the only thing that Microsoft can do right. I should have got a tablet that was more compatible with OSX, maybe.

TomtheWombat

April 17th, 2008, 10:16 AM

gjakuipers

April 17th, 2008, 03:16 PM

do you have instructions how to calibrate the tx2000?

TomtheWombat

April 17th, 2008, 04:18 PM

guess and check changing the values in the xorg.conf for right now. Sorry about that. :-/

My touchscreen calibration is far off, and I am not looking forward to calibrating it.

ACLBandit

April 18th, 2008, 06:38 AM

Following wombat's instructions, my touchscreen has worked fine ever since with no calibration necessary. The right-click button is the only thing that's been weird at all.

Also, CellWriter is EXACTLY what I was looking for-- not only does it do almost exactly the same thing as the Windows thingy, it does it BETTER and more accurately. Positively AMAZING program. (Especially when you thought you were stuck with xvkbd, lols)

Something else I noticed: the right-click button, as it is now, ALSO functions as an eraser in the CellWriter program, but nowhere else. The program's documentation says something about middle-clicking will do that, and that's what my button seems to be mapped to.

So, basically, as soon as I can rotate 90 degrees left, I'm perfectly happy.

TorchlightJay

April 20th, 2008, 12:07 AM

so ya, i got touchscreen to work. still needs callibration but i wi ll run that script when i can.

any luck with getting the eraser to work?

ACLBandit

April 20th, 2008, 02:48 AM

any luck with getting the eraser to work?

No luck here, sorry.
The eraser, though, is of less concern to me than right-clicking-- kinda necessary.

Johi

April 20th, 2008, 04:48 AM

Hi @ all
thx wombat for the Install guid ^^
The Stylus and the Touchscreen are working =)
But i have to calibrate it and the pl script doesn't work.
Can someone of the Ubuntu Gurus post an Guid how to calibrate the stylus in the xorg.conf?

My xorg.conf

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event6"
Option "TopX" "0"
Option "TopY" "0"
Option "BottomX" "1280"
Option "BottomY" "1024"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus2"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/event7"
EndSection

sry for my bad english ^^"

EDIT: another Question. Is it possible to use the Stylus but DISABLE the Touchscreen like in Windoof?

TomtheWombat

April 20th, 2008, 08:32 AM

Johi: remove your TopX, TopY, BottomX, and BottomY lines. There is a chance that your screen will be 'close enough' to calibration without them. Otherwise, you need to guess values for these parameters right now.

TomtheWombat

April 20th, 2008, 08:35 AM

I updated the instructions to include the new patch for eraser support and a line to fix your problem. You are going to need to rerun all the commands and rebuild the kernel module.

to switch the side button you need:
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button

Johi

April 20th, 2008, 10:27 AM

WUHU thx Wombat ^^
The stylus works finer than in Windoof =)
I will now rebuild the kernel modul to enable the eraser and the right mous button.
But i have 1 Question. The TX2000 has a Touchscreen and a stylus (Touchscreen = you can work with your finger on the screen or with anythink else) I want to use the stylus but not the touchscreen. Becouse when I draw something in gimp with the stylus and I leave my hand on the screen, the courser goes to that point where my hand is. In Vista i can disable this touchscreen and work only with the Stylus. Is this in Ubuntu also possible?

sorry for bad english ^^"

Johi

April 20th, 2008, 10:54 AM

I rebuild the kernel modules to enable the eraser. Now the stylus works but it is not calibrated qq
Same problem qq
i have removed the TopX, TopY, BottomX, and BottomY lines. In the old version (with no eraser) it has worked fine but now it doesnt. why?

TorchlightJay

April 21st, 2008, 01:01 AM

TomtheWombat

April 21st, 2008, 07:30 AM

hey i went through the motions and have no eraser still, just the first two. I do not know if I reset the kernel properly? How do I do that? I went ahead and removed wacom.ko and uninstalled linuxwacom and what not, no dice. Any ideas?

You shouldn't have to remove linuxwacom. You only have to replace the kernel module. Do your stylus and touch screen work?

If so, I would double check that you have all three entries in the xorg.conf and all three devices in the ServerLayout section.

TorchlightJay

April 21st, 2008, 06:32 PM

Ya, my stylus and touchscreen work just fine. What can I test my eraser on? Maybe that will help see if I have it proper. My entries in xorg look fine.

ACLBandit

April 23rd, 2008, 09:28 AM

My touchscreen doesn't work after following your guide, but that's a good thing-- I like the stylus and hate the touchscreen. Also, I'm VERY glad to have right-click. Thanks, wombat.

Now all I need is eraser-- should it be working after following your guide?

HPLinux

April 24th, 2008, 05:35 PM

Hey guys, sounds like you've been making great progress on the 'Linuxification' of the HP TX2000Z ;) Well done!
I'm seriously considering getting one soon & I'm even more encouraged by your success!
So what features are still lost in the conversion? Can you compile a list of what none of you have got working yet?
Thanks for your achievements so far ... I look forward to benefiting & hopefully helping out too soon!

CWasko36

April 27th, 2008, 02:20 AM

Tom, thanks for your work on the Tx2000. I just followed the instructions for the Wacom access. After rebooting I tried using the pen. I notice that the calibration is very off and it doesn't seem to be consistently off (sometimes it is higher than the pen, sometimes it is very far to the right). This makes me think that it isn't a simple problem with the calibration. Any ideas?

TomtheWombat

April 27th, 2008, 08:25 AM

I edited my post to make some changes to the devices in the xorg.conf file. These point to generic devices that everyone in a debian-based system should have (for now anyway.) If your xorg.conf is pointing to the wrong devices, then the mouse driver will load up the devices and things will act very funky. The calibration should be close enough without running a script.

If you delete /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom, then the original xsetwacom included in ubuntu will work. Then you can change your calibration and settings on the fly!

CWasko36

April 27th, 2008, 10:14 AM

*Doh* I was editing my Xorg incorrectly (just adding everthing to the end). Got it worked out and used your new scripts.

Works beautifully now! the only thing missing for me is screen rotation which I should work on.

TomtheWombat

April 27th, 2008, 11:14 AM

I am using vista right now, but I can give you a short tutorial on setting up screen rotation and the command line commands to do it. Unfortunately there don't seem to be any scripts available that you can tie to the hotkey.

I know there is a new patch in debian testing that uses the lid switch notification to flop the screen. We won't see that until the next Ubuntu release or later, though.

TomtheWombat

April 27th, 2008, 11:48 AM

You will need to delete the xsetwacom that my script installed. I do this in the latest version of my post but you may want to run this command just in case:

sudo rm /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom

Then restart your terminal. The command 'xsetwacom list dev' should show all your devices now.

If you are using Nvidia's restricted drivers, then you need to add the Option "RandRRotation" to the Screen section of your Xorg.conf

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RandRRotation"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection

Now at the command line to rotate the screen use

xrandr -o left
xrandr -o right
xrandr -o normal
xrandr -o inverted

In order to rotate the stylus use

xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CW
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate CW
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate CW

The CW option matches with 'right,' option CCW for 'left,' option NONE for 'normal,' option HALF for 'inverted.'

TomtheWombat

April 27th, 2008, 11:51 AM

CWasko36

April 29th, 2008, 10:20 AM

There is a Firefox extension called Grab and Drag (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1250) that is very useful for implementing 'flick' scrolling.

I also noticed that when I use the touch screen, the device issues a mouse down command before moving the cursor. Therefore whenever you tap the screen it will click and drag to the new position. Does anyone else have this issue?

I don't notice that issue with my cursor.

I was able to get the screen rotation working perfectly. I added two launch buttons on my status bar to rotate the screen and it works pretty well.

vinland029

May 1st, 2008, 04:06 AM

what abt the bluetooth module? i having trouble with my tx2000 and just like to findout whether any of u have solved it yet. in the other thread they have got the lightscribe working too. anyway moderator can u merge both threads? hereis link:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=686363

ACLBandit

May 2nd, 2008, 08:01 AM

I've finally got this nifty screenflipping set up with scripts that I can run with a single click. Very Nice!

All I need is the eraser. Following your steps, Wombat, it's still not there. Not that it's that relevant, but I'd still like it to work. Any tips or suggestions?

And about the bluetooth, I'm sorry-- I opted out there since I have a USB Bluetooth adapter

maggotroot

May 2nd, 2008, 07:03 PM

Any ideas on how to calibrate touchscreen and wacom separetly? Because my wacom calibrated pretty accurate, but touchscreen is not))

paulo_raca

May 3rd, 2008, 11:55 PM

Thanks, guys!
I've finally been able to have my machine to work!

I just have one major issue: although the touch screen does work, when I release it, the cursor moves to the bottom-right corner of the screen.

Is that "normal"?

HPLinux

May 5th, 2008, 03:17 PM

Still no list of what works & what doesn't yet, guys?

teras

May 7th, 2008, 03:23 AM

I think practically everything works now, although some still with issues.

1) touch screen is not calibrated. Seems like sending movement events, instead of giving positional.

2) The mute button works, but it doesn't change color

3) fingerprint works, but there is no proper integration

4) Some buttons still do not provide usable events

TorchlightJay

May 7th, 2008, 12:49 PM

HPLinux

May 7th, 2008, 04:48 PM

Thanks for the summary, Teras!

Let's try to keep an up-to-date list of what still needs more work.
Is there a central place to find the procedures developed so far, or is it just in the various posts here?

Keep up the excellent work, guys! :)

pAt84

May 8th, 2008, 04:54 AM

Well, you guys have hibernation working? That is not working on my tx2000z so far but I am still running 7.10.

Pat

mirosol

May 8th, 2008, 06:06 AM

Hi.

I followed the guide on stylus/touchscreen, but nothing.. My machine is tx2020eo, but hardware should be the same.

About that mute-button.. It prevented all of the sound to get out.. I found a fix for it.

Do this:

gksu gedit /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base

Add this to be the last line in alsa-base:

options snd-hda-intel model=hp

That worked for me.

ACLBandit

May 8th, 2008, 09:30 AM

I am glad that we've all figured this out. A month ago I was about ready to toss this thing out the window. Now, for the most part, it works as it should. There are only a few minor tweaks like the screen rotation and what not that I wish were better but I can live with it.

I've got four scripts set up to do this, I keep links to each one with an icon that points to which direction the screen will be after clicking it.

To rotate it to the right:
xrandr -o right
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CW

And to rotate left:

xrandr -o left
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CCW

To flip the screen upside-down:

xrandr -o inverted
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate HALF

And to move it back upright:

xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate NONE

and about that hibernation-- yeah, it kinda works. If you tell it to hibernate and then wait until the mute button turns red, you can turn it off manually and then it will *usually* come back where you left it. However, since this is likely bad for the computer, I stopped doing this.

Also, if anyone can tell me how to get the eraser working, that would be great.

And that calibration script, even though it brings up the little crosshair boxes, doesn't seem to do anything-- could I perhaps be doing something incorrectly?

sjones411

May 9th, 2008, 11:44 PM

I've got four scripts set up to do this, I keep links to each one with an icon that points to which direction the screen will be after clicking it.

To rotate it to the right:
xrandr -o right
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CW

And to rotate left:

xrandr -o left
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CCW

To flip the screen upside-down:

xrandr -o inverted
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate HALF

And to move it back upright:

xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate NONE

and about that hibernation-- yeah, it kinda works. If you tell it to hibernate and then wait until the mute button turns red, you can turn it off manually and then it will *usually* come back where you left it. However, since this is likely bad for the computer, I stopped doing this.

Also, if anyone can tell me how to get the eraser working, that would be great.

And that calibration script, even though it brings up the little crosshair boxes, doesn't seem to do anything-- could I perhaps be doing something incorrectly?

I do not actually own a TX2000z right now, but I'm going to be buying one over the weekend (and using all of the amazing information on this thread as well!). However, I do own an old HP TC1100 tablet. I found this article on Linuxquestions.org to be very helpful in setting up the various features of the tablet.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Tc1100

Of course, why am I mentioning it here in this tx2000z thread? Well, a slew of the information there is not system specific, such as getting an on screen keyboard working at login. In particular, the section on screen rotation was helpful, and produced this script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

IFS=$'\n'
DEVS=`xsetwacom list dev | \
sed -e 's/ *$//g' -e 's/$.*$ .*/\1/g' -e 's/ *$//g'`
ROTATION=`xrandr --verbose --query | \
grep 'default connected' | \
sed -e 's/^.*(.*) $.*$ (.*).*$/\1/'`

# Rotate all detected wacom devices to the given direction.
function rotate_devices()
{
for DEV in $DEVS; do
xsetwacom set $DEV rotate $1
done
}

if [[ ! $ROTATION == "normal" ]]; then
xrandr -o normal
rotate_devices none
else
xrandr -o left
rotate_devices ccw
fi
exit 0

Using this script, you can bind it to one particular button or icon, and have it switch between normal and counterclockwise orientations. I'm sure with a little tweaking someone could get it to do the TX2000z's method of rotating around to all 4 positions. Anyways, I hope that the link and the script help someone out.

EDIT: I just realize, you'd probably have to update rotate_devices ccw to
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CCW for this script to work.

ACLBandit

May 10th, 2008, 08:47 AM

I do not actually own a TX2000z right now, but I'm going to be buying one over the weekend (and using all of the amazing information on this thread as well!). However, I do own an old HP TC1100 tablet. I found this article on Linuxquestions.org to be very helpful in setting up the various features of the tablet.

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Tc1100

Wicked! Not only is the script much-appreciated, but the keyboard that's now on my login makes me very happy.

Also, my touchscreen seems to have finally, randomly started to work-- but that's a feature I don't like... How do I turn off the touchscreen completely and still leave the stylus-based touching on?

ir0nman

May 10th, 2008, 09:22 PM

Anyone figure out a way to detect the screen being rotated yet, so that we can make the screen auto rotate when we flip it? I know they do this on the x60 and x61 thinkpads, was hoping we could do it on these too, though I don't know enough linux to find the inputs myself. if anyone wants to help and explain things to me, I'd love to help work on it.
-Rick

tempo500

May 11th, 2008, 03:59 AM

hi, so i got one of my own... tx2140eg. i completed your guide on hardy in 5 minutes and everything was running. but i had to switch to gutsy again cause autodesks maya had a minor redraw problem wich disapeared in gutsy. just gutsy wont compile the new wacom driver. but i used the software kernelcheck it upgraded it to 6.25. wacom compile, nvidia compile, ndiswrapper works. alsa... i dont have a clue...so besides the sound... i am using a really fast zbrush under wine. maya is running so far very nice.
i calibrated the stylus pen seperatly from the finger input. works very nice! phil

check the cursor coordinate: xidump TabletPCStylus

xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus TopY 130
xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus TopX 220
xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus BottomY 16300
xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus BottomX 26300

xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus2 TopY 01150
xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus2 TopX 01429
xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus2 BottomY 15300
xsetwacom set TabletPCStylus2 BottomX 25300

xrandr doesnt work for me...

xrandr -o inverted
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 158 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 12

mirosol

May 11th, 2008, 06:28 AM

hi again. I'm still out of luck with wacom... My machine is tx2020eo (which should be same machine, only made for scandinavian countries...), but i think that your tutorial should be suitable for my machine also.. lsusb gives this output about wacom:
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 056a:0093 Wacom Co., Ltd
...so i think its exactly the same hardware as in tx2000z.

I've uploaded all logs and confs, so if anyone can tell me what i'm doing wrong, please do. I'm running 64-version of 8.04.

Yours, Miro from Finland

TomtheWombat

May 11th, 2008, 11:07 AM

xrandr doesnt work for me...

Add the option for RandRRotation to your xorg.conf.

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RandRRotation"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection

tempo500

May 11th, 2008, 06:26 PM

hey, i have that in the xorg.conf file...

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 16
Option "UseFBDev" "true"
Option "RandRRotation"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x800"
EndSubSection
EndSection

TomtheWombat

May 11th, 2008, 06:42 PM

What drive are you using to drive your display? nvidia? nv? fbdev?

BTW: THere is a screen roattion patch for the Asus R1F in debian unstable. I'll work on patching up Ubuntu for the tx2000z with a similar patch when i get a chance later this week or next weekend...

ir0nman

May 13th, 2008, 03:06 AM

If there's anything I can do with the patch, let me know. I assume that your talking about automatic rotation based on the lid sensor or something? Thanks for all your work so far on this laptop it's awesome!
-Rick

ACLBandit

May 14th, 2008, 07:27 AM

I've been having an issue with the touchscreen while trying to take notes for class: as soon as the stylus is lifted, the mouse does a click-jump to wherever my fingers or hand are touching the screen. I hate the touchscreen anyway-- I love my wacom pen, though.

I thought I had figured out how to disable it, but apparently not. Does anyone know how to turn OFF the touchscreen but leave ON the wacom/wacom pen?

TomtheWombat

May 14th, 2008, 09:15 AM

if you install xserver-xorg-dev and reinstall with my instructions then the touch screen will act normally instead of click/drag. Not sure how to disable it yet.

ACLBandit

May 14th, 2008, 10:48 AM

if you install xserver-xorg-dev and reinstall with my instructions then the touch screen will act normally instead of click/drag. Not sure how to disable it yet.

Yeah, I did that now--it kinda makes some sense now. I still want to turn it off, though, so if anyone figures it out, let me know.

xraytroubadour

May 17th, 2008, 07:27 AM

Hello,

First thanks to all the people on this thread for the info. Installing kubuntu on my new tx2000z was so easier. In fact, reading this thread convinced me of buying it in the first place.

So, I think I am at the same point as most of you: everything works almost perfect. One thing I was wondering: am I the only one who seem to suffer from this bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1891713&group_id=69596&atid=525127

On this bug tracker site, they seem to say that the problem is solved, but it definitely is not for me. Strokes in xournal look a bit blocky, and typing "xidump TabletPCStylus" shows coordinates only at the resolution of the screen.

Now, what is really weird is that I am pretty sure I didn't have this problem a few days ago. It seems to have started exactly when I recompiled the wacom driver with the xserver-xorg-dev package installed, since I also had this click-jump issue with the touchscreen. Un-installing xserver-xorg-dev and recompiling didn't revert to the previous situation though.

Thanks for any input on that issue!

Oh, and by the way, I could disable the touchscreen just by putting the Sendcoreevents option to "false" in my xorg.conf...

tempo500

May 17th, 2008, 03:13 PM

hi,
i am running the nvidia drivers... thanks for your help

Section "Device"
Identifier "nVidia Corporation C51 [Geforce 6150 Go]"
Driver "nvidia"
EndSection

M42

May 19th, 2008, 12:43 PM

On this bug tracker site, they seem to say that the problem is solved, but it definitely is not for me. Strokes in xournal look a bit blocky, and typing "xidump TabletPCStylus" shows coordinates only at the resolution of the screen.

Oh, and by the way, I could disable the touchscreen just by putting the Sendcoreevents option to "false" in my xorg.conf...

Hello xraytroubadour,
I'm getting the coordinates for x > 25k and y > 15k based on the output from xidump TabletPCStylus but I can see some blocking in xjournal if I look closely using the fine pen. Wish I could be more help.

Which SendCoreEvents did you turn off in xorg.conf to turn off the touchscreen?

xraytroubadour

May 19th, 2008, 03:31 PM

Hello xraytroubadour,
I'm getting the coordinates for x > 25k and y > 15k based on the output from xidump TabletPCStylus but I can see some blocking in xjournal if I look closely using the fine pen. Wish I could be more help.

Which SendCoreEvents did you turn off in xorg.conf to turn off the touchscreen?

Yeah, something is not normal with my setup - I may very well have tweaked too many things - especially in the xorg.conf.

The "SendCoreEvent" option I set to false is the one for TabletPCStlyus2. I must warn you that it may not be the solution because the touchscreen randomly started to work again in some occasions. I need to check how this is correlated to suspending to ram. I am so happy I can suspend my laptop (I never was able to do it on the one I had before) that I may be overdoing it a little...

Oh, and just in case someone is interested, I wrote a small script to rotate the screen, that I placed in my ~/bin:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z `xrandr | grep -o "800x1280"` ]; then
# Landscape mode - change to portrait
xrandr -o right
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate CW
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate CW
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate CW
else
# Portrait mode - change to landscape
xrandr -o normal
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate NONE
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate NONE
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate NONE
fi
(some may prefer CCW and left instead of CW and right. I am left-handed and the pen string is in the way when I rotate it the other way)

I then configured KDE to execute the script when I hit the button with the little arrow going in a circle on the bottom right corner of the screen (I don't know what it is supposed to mean).

xraytroubadour

May 19th, 2008, 04:16 PM

Hello again,

Ok, I barely understand what I just did, but for now my low-resolution problem seems to be solved. Even though I may be the only one having the problem, I'll document it here now (I hate seing threads that finish with "Hey I found the solution", and then nothing).

Doing a diff on the config.log in the linuxwacom-0.7.9.11 directory for the cases with and without xserver-xorg-dev showed a "quirk" called "tablet-rescale". In the file config.status (that was generated with "./configure --enable-wacom" and xserver-xorg-dev installed), I looked for the lines that contained TABLET_SCALING. There were two of those, and I just discarded them. Then followed the usual compilation. I guess me believing that removing xserver-xorg-dev did not solve the problem was just caused by forgetting to "make clean"... I still wanted to have xserver-xorg-dev installed since it solved the jump/click issue.

Anyway, as I said I have no clue what this all mean. I'll also stop here since I am probably mostly talking to myself. (I wonder why nobody else got this issue, though...)

correaa

May 20th, 2008, 12:34 PM

Regarding the issue of disabling the touchscreen (while keeping stylus).

I don't know exactly what the options in xorg.conf do, but the following lines disables the touchscreen. I guess the key part is the last section but I don't know way. Maybe this gives a clue to someone else on activating the eraser tip for certain programs (e.g. gimp or xournal). If you have any improvement please pots it:

disabled touchscreen:
---------------------

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button
# Option "TopX" "225"
# Option "TopY" "122"
# Option "BottomX" "26365"
# Option "BottomY" "16488"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus2"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus3"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Button1" "1" #this line is important
Option "Button2" "1" #this line is important
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "touch"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-mouse"
Option "Type" "touch"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
# Option "TopX" "225"
# Option "TopY" "122"
# Option "BottomX" "26365"
# Option "BottomY" "16488"
EndSection

lordoflima

May 22nd, 2008, 04:05 PM

This is my quickly typed bash script for rotating the screen. Just put it into any file, set chmod +x and set a k-menu-entry with the rotation-icon (next to DVD) as hotkey. Works fine, but I'd liked the other button more, for consistency.

#!/bin/bash

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "right" ]; then
rm /tmp/screen_rotation
XRAND="normal"
SETWACOM="NONE"
ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "inverted" ] && [ "$ROTATED" != "1" ]; then
echo "right" > /tmp/screen_rotation
XRAND="right"
SETWACOM="CW"
ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "left" ] && [ "$ROTATED" != "1" ]; then
echo "inverted" > /tmp/screen_rotation
XRAND="inverted"
SETWACOM="HALF"
ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "`cat /tmp/screen_rotation 2>/dev/null`" = "" ] && [ "$ROTATED" != "1" ]; then
echo "left" > /tmp/screen_rotation
XRAND="left"
SETWACOM="CCW"
ROTATED="1"
fi;

if [ "$ROTATED" = "1" ]; then
xrandr -o $XRAND
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus" Rotate $SETWACOM
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus2" Rotate $SETWACOM
xsetwacom set "TabletPCStylus3" Rotate $SETWACOM
fi;

Does anybody got the standby working?

ACLBandit

May 23rd, 2008, 11:38 AM

Correa, no go-- the .conf doesn't kill m touch5creen:(

However, Lordoflima, your script is my new Best Friend.

correaa

May 23rd, 2008, 05:46 PM

it worked for a while for me, and then the stupid uncalibrated touchscreen came back. Sorry.

Correa, no go-- the .conf doesn't kill m touch5creen:(

However, Lordoflima, your script is my new Best Friend.

theverant

May 24th, 2008, 01:37 AM

Thanks for all the hard work guys. I just bought this lappy today and have most everything working. I think I killed xorg, though. Ubuntu now starts in low res mode - ew! Any help in fixing would be very much appreciated.

](*,)

Best,
Theverant

M42

May 24th, 2008, 09:55 AM

I had this happen when I was adjusting some of the screen parameters in the kde's sytem setting. If you look at xorg.conf you will probably find some line that have some low res parameters, i.e. 640X480, I just edited those out and when I restart X it was back to high res mode. It is probably a good idea to keep a copy of a working xorg.conf just in case your changes don't work.

Good luck.

pAt84

May 24th, 2008, 05:07 PM

In case somebody uses avant window navigator (AWN), make sure you place a 'killall avant-window-navigator' in front of the rotation and a 'avant-window-navigator' after it. This will make it restart everytime and the icons will be right aligned again (didnt work for me). Also, you might wanne add a 'sleep 2' between the commands to let the system wait two seconds before it rotates the screen and starts AWN. I noticed that the x-server can get incredibly slow if you dont do that.

One question guys, which might seem stupid: How do I in Ubuntu (gnome) connect my rotation-script with the button on the tablet pc?

Pat

sjones411

May 24th, 2008, 07:45 PM

I'm having trouble getting the wacom tablet features working. I followed all the instructions to the T, but when I typed in sudo rmmod wacom I get:

ERROR: Module wacom does not exist in /proc/modules

You guys have any suggestions? By the way, if you read this ACLBandit, how did you get the pen working without the touch screen? I do a lot of graphic art stuff, so I don't want my palm to screw up my stuff. Anyways, thanks in advance!

pAt84

May 25th, 2008, 05:47 AM

Just go on with the guide and ignore the error.

Pat

tempo500

May 25th, 2008, 09:39 AM

looks like this applies to gutsy... my harddrive was parking all the time which can reduce the lifetime of your hd....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=795327

sjones411

May 25th, 2008, 12:02 PM

Just go on with the guide and ignore the error.

Pat

I did continued on with the guide, and even after fixing my Xorg I still don't have tablet or touchscreen support. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any suggestions?

My Xorg: http://www.box.net/shared/67z1jgtss4

pAt84

May 25th, 2008, 12:59 PM

sjones411

May 25th, 2008, 01:49 PM

Apart from that error nothing bad happened? Are you on Hardy? Which specific model do you have? Please do a 'lsusb' on the console.

Also I had the kernel sources and linux-headers downloaded before I ran the guide. But I doubt that will make any difference.

Pat

Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 056a:0093 Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 08ff:1600 AuthenTec, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f2:b015 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

There's my lsusb. I'm running on the latest version of 8.04. I'm on the TX2000 CTO modle which was purchased last week. Thanks for all the help Pat!

pAt84

May 25th, 2008, 05:52 PM

Well yeah, thing is that I myself do not really know what I am doing. ;)

Did you actually run the guide on a fresh installation of hardy? That is what I did and it worked like a charm. I also got the same error telling me that the module is not there.

Edit: And as for you lsusb? What is going on there? Here is mine:

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 056a:0093 Wacom Co., Ltd
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 064e:a110 Suyin Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7C65640 USB-2.0 "TetraHub"
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c01d Logitech, Inc. MX510 Optical Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

The last one is my mouse. Your AuthenTec-thingy is probably the fingerprint reader. I don't have one for some reason. But what is the general 'Hewlett-Packard' and 'Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd'? Mouse? Keyboard? While your wacom lies on Bus 1 mine lies on Bus 2. Someone else with the tx2000z should print his/her lsusb output. Maybe your issue likes there although I doubt it.

Pat

sjones411

May 25th, 2008, 07:28 PM

ACLBandit

May 26th, 2008, 12:48 PM

sjones411

May 26th, 2008, 01:01 PM

M42

May 26th, 2008, 01:15 PM

So today's updates killed my wacom, thus making me quite sad. I tried following the tutorial on the new kernel, but to no avail (even changing the kernel number from 16 to 17, of course).

I also tried booting back in 16 and re-doing the wacom install, but once again was met with quite a bit of nothing.

Any insight, guys?

I just downloaded the updates for today. Looks like one of the updates is a new nvidia-glx-new driver. My guess is it was not the updated kernel since you still have the problem when booting into the old kernel but it is the new nvidia driver. If you can find the old driver you might give re-installing the old driver and see if that corrects your problem. I'm not going to install the upgrades for a few days or until we figure out what caused the problem.

Good luck.

pAt84

May 26th, 2008, 04:58 PM

Is it only me or is the CPU stuck at 800 Mhz (or whatever your lowest level is) for everyone when running on battery?

Pat

ACLBandit

May 27th, 2008, 06:24 AM

Touchscreen is up-and-running here on the -17 kernel.

The surest way to get it running is to remove the linuxwacom folder from your home folder, and also get rid of the patch file and the linuxwacom*.tar.bz2 from your home folder.

Then run through Wombat's tutorial on page 3 in full, changing ONLY the part where it mentions the -16 kernel to -17.

I think that I was trying to double-patch the file or something unknowingly, which is likely the reason I couldn't recompile correctly.

DesiDishoom

May 27th, 2008, 10:30 PM

hey guys, i'm relatively new to the ubuntu world, but i've managed to get it running successfully with full functionality on two other machines at home. but, as hard as i may try, when i try to get the wireless working on this HP tx2000z tablet, it keeps freezing up a few minutes after the network gets connected. It is never the same time after connection, and it's sometimes during the connection stage.

I am positive the wireless card is the culprit because i can install as many other drivers as i want, and as long as i don't get the wireless up and running, and everything runs great. But as i said, once i use ndiswrapper to install the dell drivers (like was mentioned on page 2 of this thread) it freezes every time i boot up.

I have the Broadcom BCM4310 (rev 01) card. I am using the updated version (-17) of hardy 8.04, although the -16 kernel did the same thing...

Any help would be AWESOME because vista is annoying the crap out of me, and getting over this roadblock would absolutely make my summer.

unterfuhrer

May 28th, 2008, 04:38 PM

can anyone explain howto get the calibrationtool to work, i can figure it out. I have tested many times and all a get in the terminal is:

Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Get: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Use of uninitialized value in system at ./calibrate.pl line 35.
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Use of uninitialized value in system at ./calibrate.pl line 36.
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./calibrate.pl line 40.
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at ./calibrate.pl line 40.
Use of uninitialized value in multiplication (*) at ./calibrate.pl line 112.
Use of uninitialized value in multiplication (*) at ./calibrate.pl line 113.
Use of uninitialized value in multiplication (*) at ./calibrate.pl line 115.
Use of uninitialized value in multiplication (*) at ./calibrate.pl line 116.
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'
Error (2): WacomConfigOpenDevice: No such device
Set: Failed to open device 'Synaptics'

does you know whats wrong ? The touchpad works but it is wrong calibrated.

Thanks

sjones411

May 29th, 2008, 01:48 PM

You guys have been so helpful with getting my Tx2000z running under Ubuntu that I'd like to give something back. I know how useful the buttons built into the screen can be for graphics design people like myself, so here's a short tutorial I made for getting the DVD and QuickPlay buttons to do something useful. So without further adue...

Keybinding guide for the HP Tx2000z Tablet PC.

First, we're going to use XBindKeys to bind different applications or scripts to the key. So we'll need to download that. We'll also download an on screen keyboard called xvkbd, which we'll use later.

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xvkbd

Now that we've got that taken care of, we'll need to set up a confituration script.

gedit ~/.xbindkeysrc

Xbindkeys works pretty easily. All you have to do is type in the name of the program in quotes, and then the key you'd like to bind it to on the next line.

"cellwriter"
c:0xed
"xvkbd -text "\Cz""
c:0xcd

Alright, now save the file. Before we go any further we need to test xbindkeys out. Open up a terminal and type:

xbindkeys -v

Now, try pressing the DVD button (0xed) or the QuickPlay button (0xcd), if everything went right, the program or script you assigned to them should work. In the above script, the DVD button will launch the great handwriting to text program CellWriter, and the Quick Play button will send the key commands for Ctrl-Z to the computer, great for us graphic artists. However, any terminal command that can be placed within the quotes and should work. I highly recommend using the rotate script written by lordoflima (http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=5020078&postcount=88).

Now then, we just have to get get xbindkeys to launch at startup. To do this, go to the menu up at the top and hit System --> Preferances --> Session. Next, click the Add button. In the Name Box type "xbindkeys", and then for the Command type "xbindkeys" again.

Tada! That's all there is to it... for the first two keys. Unfortunately, the rotate key and the mobility system key are not recognized by Ubuntu's kernel by default, and will take some more work to get functioning properly. I'll post the second part of my tutorial once I get it working myself. Hope you guys find this walk through useful!

sjones411

June 1st, 2008, 01:29 PM

I know that the touch screen is a strange issue, and for the most part mine calibrated well. If you poke the center of the screen it works perfectly, but the further away I get from the center the more off it becomes. I gets so bad that I cannot even click on anything in the last inch of my display. This picture shows the area of which I can click in. To take it, I dragged my finger from the top left to the bottom right. Is anyone else having such strange issues with their tablet? Thanks in advance.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/5152/screenshotqo9.png

ACLBandit

June 2nd, 2008, 06:26 AM

Jones, if it's just the touchscreen you're talking about, then yes, I am most certainly having issues. I can't calibrate it, I don't want it to be there anyway, and it just generally sucks.

At least the wacom pen is pretty well-calibrated, otherwise I'd be screwed.

DesiDishoom

June 2nd, 2008, 02:30 PM

This thread is absolutely amazing. I have everything working for the most part, except for the touchscreen (without the stylus) is WAY off, and never consistently so either...

BUT i have a more pressing issue:

is anyone else having issues with the display not turning back on once it's turned off? This issue is really crippling because i can't put it into suspend/hibernate or even let it sit there until the display turns off, or else it won't turn back on and i have to do a hard reboot.
this almost seems like a hardware thing than something with ubuntu, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

pAt84

June 2nd, 2008, 02:40 PM

Yep, that is true for me as well. It also happens when you close the lid for a while and open it again: The screen won't turn back on. Have to restart X then.

Another issue is that my CPU is locked at 800 Mhz while running on battery. I'd appriciate if anyone could comfirm that.

Pat

DesiDishoom

June 2nd, 2008, 02:42 PM

yeah, ditto on the 800 Mhz lock on battery...no clue how to change that. tried changing the default cpu scaling to 'performance', but that didn't do anything either.

it really hurts especially when since the desktop cube, expo, and other compiz-fusion stuff doesn't run very smoothly...

sjones411

June 2nd, 2008, 10:49 PM

BUT i have a more pressing issue:

is anyone else having issues with the display not turning back on once it's turned off? This issue is really crippling because i can't put it into suspend/hibernate or even let it sit there until the display turns off, or else it won't turn back on and i have to do a hard reboot.
this almost seems like a hardware thing than something with ubuntu, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

I have the same issues where if I close my laptop's lid, I don't know how to automate this, but if you press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then press Ctrl+Alt+F7, and maybe move the mouse around a little, then your screen should come back. It takes a bit of fiddling some times, but keep trying and it should work.

DesiDishoom

June 4th, 2008, 12:24 PM

uh oh, just got the update notification that the new kernel is available. i'm going to try and update it, and follow the instructions on page 3, changing only the -16 to -18, and i'll post whether i can get the wacom up after the kernel update!

ACLBandit

June 4th, 2008, 01:03 PM

The new updates killed my wireless card-- because it's apparently supported now. Lol.

If it happens to do the same to you, and your wireless WAS previously working, simply open the restricted drivers manager and turn off the new entry, "wl."

Reboot, and all is well. Only thing left is to run the touchscreen tutorial... again...

EDIT 4 mins later: Not even a problem :) Wacom runs again on the new -18 kernel. All you have to do, once again, is run the tutorial.

If the files are already patched and such, you can just start at the ./configure step while in the linuxwacom folder. If not, or if you're not sure, the best thing to do is just to remove the source files you used previously and start at the beginning.

The only change, of course, is the kernel number-- do this line of the tutorial
sudo cp src/2.6.24/wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

Like THIS instead:
sudo cp src/2.6.24/wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.24-18-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

Good luck! ^_^

DesiDishoom

June 4th, 2008, 01:42 PM

nice dude, props for taking the plunge and getting it all to work! i'm relatively new to ubuntu, so could anyone enlighten me on how often these kernel updates come around? i'm not really looking forward to having to follow that tutorial over and over again too often..,(although i'd assume i'd be able to do it all without the tutorial after the first few times...silver lining maybe?)

ACLBandit

June 4th, 2008, 03:07 PM

I don't seem to remember kernel updates being nearly so frequent before-- but then again, I also haven't had much use for paying attention. I didn't run anything before with... what's it called... "kernel modules," I think? I now have three-- VirtualBox, Cisco VPN, and the wacom thing. Yaay for a high-maintenance note-taking thing for summer classes.

Hardy is a relatively new release. I, having no idea what the updates are based upon (i.e., based on need, based on a release schedule, whatever), wonder if perhaps it will calm down as 8.04 ages a bit.

DesiDishoom

June 5th, 2008, 12:48 PM

nice got mine working too! thanks aclbandit.

i think it kinda sucks that there isn't a powerful opensource program to mimic OneNote, cause that's really the only thing i miss about Windows...that and being able to log in with my fingerprint. has anyone been able to integrate the fingerprint reader yet?

ACLBandit

June 5th, 2008, 04:50 PM

i think it kinda sucks that there isn't a powerful opensource program to mimic OneNote, cause that's really the only thing i miss about Windows...that and being able to log in with my fingerprint. has anyone been able to integrate the fingerprint reader yet?

I don't think there is any fingerprint integration yet. :(

However, there is an open-source notetaking app that I like, though it isn't as powerful as OneNote appears to be.

It's called xournal, I think it's in the repositories. Another one you might want to look into is Jarnal, a java-based program with similar features. Jarnal, though, took up too much memory and caused a laptop overheat when I was running WinXP in a VM at the same time.

So I recommend Xournal. Not as feature-rich, but it might get the job done.

DesiDishoom

June 5th, 2008, 05:02 PM

sjones411

June 5th, 2008, 07:00 PM

yea i've tried Xournal...seems more like an alternative to Windows Journal, which like you said, gets the job done. But the biggest upside to OneNote is the ability to print pdf to it and write all over it, print screen clippings to it, and basically just organize nearly all of my life into it haha. But yep, i'll definitely live with booting into Vista when i need that functionality, and using Xournal for the rest.

I agree, Ubuntu needs a good OneNote clone. However, if all you're needing is OneNote's Print to PDF feature, then you're in luck. Ubuntu has a rather nice PDF Printer, and Xournal can easily annotate PDF documents. For instructions on how to get Print to PDF working, follow this link:

http://www.arsgeek.com/?p=1720

Enjoy!

MurDoK

June 6th, 2008, 06:38 AM

sjones411

June 6th, 2008, 02:57 PM

Hello. It has also happened to me but in my case the restricted drivers manager doesn't show any new entry named "wl". It only shows the nvidia one.
:confused:

dmesg shows wlan0: link not ready when I try to configure it manually.
(ifconfig wlan1 up does nothing)

I can't test this for myself since I'm in the process of switching over from Wubi to native Ubuntu, but part of the problem could be which wireless card you have. ACLBandit and I both have the G/B wireless card, not the B/G/N card. The new driver may only be for those people who did not upgrade their card to the new N standard. Once again though, I have no way of testing it right now and it's just speculation. :-\"

MurDoK

June 6th, 2008, 03:29 PM

Well, first of all. It's solved.
Now I don't know if it was caused by the upgrade or because I had been playing with another wifi usb card and patching kernel to inject packets... but with older kernels it didnt work neither.

I solved it into the Network menu. I activated the device there and it worked :confused: strange...

My card is a/b/g/n rev3. I thought all models brought this one!

dimonzub

June 6th, 2008, 04:24 PM

is anyone else having issues with the display not turning back on once it's turned off? This issue is really crippling because i can't put it into suspend/hibernate or even let it sit there until the display turns off, or else it won't turn back on and i have to do a hard reboot.
this almost seems like a hardware thing than something with ubuntu, but any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

i had this problem as well and CTRL+ALT+F1 then CTRL+ALT+F7 did not help me as well. i have followed instructions for hibernate on the TC1100 laptop and it worked for me

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Tc1100#Hibernate_and_suspend_to_RAM

See if it will help you.

MurDoK

June 8th, 2008, 07:42 AM

Hi.
I have not seen anyone complaining about his keypad that is not working (I mean the keypad using Fn key, Fn+U=4, Fn+L=3...).
At least in the spanish layout it doesn't work by default.
Here is the recipe of how I solved it:

Open a terminal, then:
xmodmap -pke > .xmodmap

It prints the current keymap table that is being used to the file .xmodmap.

Now edit it. The lines I changed were:

keycode 79 = KP_Home KP_7
keycode 80 = KP_Up KP_8
keycode 81 = KP_Prior KP_9
keycode 83 = KP_Left KP_4
keycode 84 = KP_Begin KP_5
keycode 85 = KP_Right KP_6
keycode 87 = KP_End KP_1
keycode 88 = KP_Down KP_2
keycode 89 = KP_Next KP_3
keycode 90 = KP_Insert KP_0

removing the first alias, so it remains as:

keycode 79 = KP_7
keycode 80 = KP_8
keycode 81 = KP_9
keycode 83 = KP_4
keycode 84 = KP_5
keycode 85 = KP_6
keycode 87 = KP_1
keycode 88 = KP_2
keycode 89 = KP_3
keycode 90 = KP_0

Finally type:
xmodmap .xmodmap

And test if it works.

Execute it for all users and before logging in:
sudo mv .xmodmap /etc/X11/Xmodmap

Note: Your keycodes may differ :confused:
Note2: I don't know the gui method to do it

sjones411

June 8th, 2008, 02:57 PM

Fuzzie 360

June 9th, 2008, 01:03 AM

Up until now I've been using Wubi (The Windows Based Ubuntu Installer) for my Ubuntu installation. However, I want to switch over and use a traditional Ubuntu install. I've already uninstalled Wubi and then I fired up my Ubuntu install CD. Once in the Live CD however, I became somewhat confused. My tx2000z came with one of HP's recovery partitions, and I don't have any experience installing Ubuntu on a machine with 2 existing partitions on it. And also unfortunately, I want a relatively smell Ubuntu install (roughly 10 GB), and it's automatic partitioner does things by percentages, so when I get near 20GBs the text becomes unreadable. I did buy the $20 recovery CDs from HP, so should I even be worried about the recovery partition? What did you guys do for your installs?

What I did was I used the vista partition editor and shrunk my main volume some space and left it unallocated. And if the vista editor will not let me shrink any more, I would use partedmagic livecd to edit the partition through gparted and fix the ntfs partition with ntfsfix v2 (any version less will not work). Then I would i use the CD/DVD i burnt and install throught the anaconda installer and I specificly say to "use largest continuous free space" so it doesn't touch my other two partition. Hope that helps.

Fuzzie 360

June 9th, 2008, 07:52 AM

Sorry for double posting guys, but I found out the solution for those of you who are stuck in 800MHz when on battery!

You guys have been great help to me (even though I'm on Fedora instead of Ubuntu) and now it's time for me to repay you guys :P

All I had to do to fix this CPU scaling problem is to run this:

sudo modprobe powernow-k8
sudo modprobe acpi-cpufreq

or for fedora users (modprobe link is not present):
su -
modprobe powernow-k8
modprobe acpi-cpufreq

There you go! CPU scaling goodness on battery.
(I don't know how, I don't know why, but running it at this particular order magically made it work even though i got a resource-is-busy error upon acpi-cpufreq)

To make this permanent, add these lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

modprobe powernow-k8
modprobe acpi-cpufreq

I'm sorry if there is a need to install some packages because I may have installed some necessary packages while I was frantically working for a solution (although highly unlikely ;)).

-------------------------------------------------------------

Now, I'm going to tell you how to get the fingerprint reader working :D
Just go here and it will explain everything to you:
http://www.reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Pam_fprint

It works fine, however, please note that current support is kinda wonky and chance of reproducibility of your configured fingerprints is very low. I recommend putting 10 copies of your left thumb as your other fingers as a failsafe. Do not get rid of password fallback! Chances are you will get locked out. You need to wait until the fprint project matures.

If you are unable to login or save your fingerprint you might want to change permissions and ownership of your ~/.fprint profile directory

-------------------------------------------------------------

For those of you who wants inking (pen -> text) support, you should install cellwriter! it works really good so far

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For those of you who are not in Ubuntu and the special buttons (DVD and Quickplay buttons) are not giving a response through xbindkeys, you need to map the keys to a keycode using setkeycodes. Test it out and if it works okay, add it to /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Here's an example:
setkeycodes e008 200 #Quickplay button
setkeycodes e00e 201 #DVD button

and in .xbindkeysrc:
"cellwriter"
c:169
"rotatesrn.sh"
c:168
Note: Of course, you need your own rotatesrn.sh

-------------------------------------------------------------

Now, if you anyone want to help me with my problem (TX2000 Filesystem Corrupts Upon Resume From Suspend), please post in this forum thread (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1027479#post1027479) thanks!

ACLBandit

June 9th, 2008, 10:59 AM

FANTASTIC call on the hibernation/suspend fix-- I've been looking for something like that for ages!! ^_^

M42

June 9th, 2008, 01:03 PM

i had this problem as well and CTRL+ALT+F1 then CTRL+ALT+F7 did not help me as well. i have followed instructions for hibernate on the TC1100 laptop and it worked for me

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Tc1100#Hibernate_and_suspend_to_RAM

See if it will help you.

Beware, this blew my xorg and had to boot the recovery mode, have it fix X and then copy my old xorg.conf to the /etc/X11/ directory.

unterfuhrer

June 9th, 2008, 01:11 PM

i had this problem as well and CTRL+ALT+F1 then CTRL+ALT+F7 did not help me as well. i have followed instructions for hibernate on the TC1100 laptop and it worked for me

http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Tc1100#Hibernate_and_suspend_to_RAM

See if it will help you.

In that link its writen:

* In /etc/X11/xorg.conf, add this line to the Device section describing the nVidia adapter:

Option "NvAGP" "1"

I can't find were to writ it in xorg.conf, anyone that could post ther xorg.conf so i can see were to write it?

Thanks

ACLBandit

June 9th, 2008, 02:32 PM

Didn't blow my xorg.conf at all, worked like a dream. Mine looks as follows:
# xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by failsafeDexconf, using
# values from the debconf database and some overrides to use vesa mode.
#
# You should use dexconf or another such tool for creating a "real" xorg.conf
# For example:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "auto-dev"
Option "HorizEdgeScroll" "0"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:0:5:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 0
Option "NvAGP" "1"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Configured Monitor"
Vendorname "Generic LCD Display"
Modelname "LCD Panel 1280x800"
Horizsync 31.5-50.0
Vertrefresh 56.0 - 65.0
modeline "800x600@56" 36.0 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 +hsync +vsync
modeline "800x600@60" 40.0 800 840 968 1056 600 601 605 628 +hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x768@60" 80.14 1280 1344 1480 1680 768 769 772 795 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x720@60" 74.48 1280 1336 1472 1664 720 721 724 746 -hsync +vsync
modeline "1280x800@60" 83.46 1280 1344 1480 1680 800 801 804 828 -hsync +vsync
Gamma 1.0
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Configured Video Device"
Monitor "Configured Monitor"
Defaultdepth 24
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RandRRotation"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 1280 800
Modes "1280x800" "1280x720" "1280x768" "800x600" "800x600@56"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
screen "Default Screen"
Inputdevice "Synaptics Touchpad"
Inputdevice "TabletPCStylus"
Inputdevice "TabletPCStylus2"
Inputdevice "TabletPCStylus3"
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "glx"
EndSection
Section "device" #
Identifier "device1"
Boardname "vesa"
Busid "PCI:0:5:0"
Driver "nvidia"
Screen 1
EndSection
Section "screen" #
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Defaultdepth 24
Monitor "monitor1"
EndSection
Section "monitor" #
Identifier "monitor1"
Gamma 1.0
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
Option "Button2" "3" # make side-switch a right button
# Option "TopX" "225"
# Option "TopY" "122"
# Option "BottomX" "26365"
# Option "BottomY" "16488"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus2"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "TabletPCStylus3"
Driver "wacom"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "Button3" "2"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/by-id/usb-Tablet_ISD-V4-event-mouse"
EndSection

joutsen

June 10th, 2008, 01:15 PM

FANTASTIC call on the hibernation/suspend fix-- I've been looking for something like that for ages!! ^_^

From this I deduce you have been able to get the suspend to work reliably, i.e. you have fixed the problem of the screen not waking up with the rest of the machine.

Could you or anyone else with suspend working post the full /etc/default/acpi-support contents here? And just to make sure, perhaps also the "Device" section of /etc/X11/xorg.conf?

Thanks!

paulo_raca

June 10th, 2008, 03:32 PM

Hi guys!
At first I was very disappointed with my screen calibration. If I calibrated it to work OK in the middle of the screen, it would behave oddly near the edges (I had to click about 1 cm "outside" the screen to pick a scrollbar), and, of course, if I calibrated it to work in the borders, it would become weird in the middle.

Since TopX, TopY, BottomX, BottomY attributes weren't able to address this problem, I've written a patch to linuxwacom to allow finer calibration:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1957296&group_id=69596&atid=525127

I hope someone finds it useful :)

MurDoK

June 10th, 2008, 05:00 PM

I found a ticket in launchpad from a guy who has reported also a problem related to cpu-scaling. I think it's the same than in our case:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/228374 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/228374)

Wolvenhaven

June 10th, 2008, 07:14 PM

Edit: Fixed the wireless and tablet problems.

M42

June 10th, 2008, 07:59 PM

wire604

June 11th, 2008, 01:15 AM

Wolvenhaven

June 11th, 2008, 04:23 AM

Thanks for all this information guys, I have gotten everything working. However I cannot figure out how to get the calibration script and the rotate script working. Where exactly do I place them? What do I do to run them? And how do I bind the rotate script to the rotation button?

pAt84

June 11th, 2008, 06:41 AM

Hey Pat !
which version of the file linux-wacom did you use ?

The one, TomTheWombat is refering to in his tutorial: 0.7.9-11

Best
Pat

mika_aus

June 11th, 2008, 07:54 AM

I have been following the tutorial line by line and I can get the touchscreen and the pen to work,

Attached is the first error that I have come across. I have a tx2004au running 8.04 64bit. installed all the updates that are available as of today. Kernal 19 I think. I am still learing all the ling as I used to be a windows person. please help.

~/linuxwacom-0.7.9-11$ rmmod wacom
ERROR: Module wacom does not exist in /proc/modules
mz@mz-laptop:~/linuxwacom-0.7.9-11$ cp src/2.6.24/wacom.ko /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko
cp: cannot create regular file `/lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko': Permission denied

MurDoK

June 11th, 2008, 08:05 AM

mika_aus

June 11th, 2008, 08:36 AM

That did the trick thanks guys. All i need to make work if the figure print scanner for logging on and screen rotate and map all the buttons and find the best program to test the webcam. any thoughts?:guitar:

pAt84

June 11th, 2008, 08:52 AM

Well, my webcam worked out of the box with 8.04 (in Skype). So you might wanne give this a try.

mika_aus

June 11th, 2008, 09:06 AM

what is the best way in calobrating the touch screen? the pen is fine the touch side of it is getting worse. Is it possible to set up the tablet to be like . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrCOWqZYQEc

if it what am i missing??

sjones411

June 11th, 2008, 11:18 AM

...and find the best program to test the webcam. any thoughts?

You should try the webcam program "Cheese". It's a clone of Photobooth for Mac OS X. It's in synaptic, go look it up.

Wolvenhaven

June 12th, 2008, 12:38 AM

Even when plugged in my cpu is stuck at 800mhz. What are you guy's fixes for this. Also with xbindkeys, how do I bind the rotation script? ' "rotation.sh" c:205 ' doesn't work.

teras

June 12th, 2008, 12:54 PM

Even when plugged in my cpu is stuck at 800mhz. What are you guy's fixes for this. Also with xbindkeys, how do I bind the rotation script? ' "rotation.sh" c:205 ' doesn't work.

That's normal behavior, to save battery life.
If you need more CPU power, this number should change upwards.

sjones411

June 12th, 2008, 06:47 PM

Even when plugged in my cpu is stuck at 800mhz. What are you guy's fixes for this. Also with xbindkeys, how do I bind the rotation script? ' "rotation.sh" c:205 ' doesn't work.

Does the rotate script work in the terminal? Don't forget to chmod +x rotation.sh.

EDIT: Ah, I also forgot, you have to point to where the script is. So if it's in your home folder it would be "~/rotation.sh".

Wolvenhaven

June 13th, 2008, 07:47 PM

Does the rotate script work in the terminal? Don't forget to chmod +x rotation.sh.

EDIT: Ah, I also forgot, you have to point to where the script is. So if it's in your home folder it would be "~/rotation.sh".

I was just really dumb,I forgot to do the sh for "sh /rotation.sh"

(written using cellwriter, thanks guys)

wire604

June 14th, 2008, 08:40 PM

hey hey i got it working !

mika_aus

June 15th, 2008, 04:36 AM

Has anyone got the screen rotate button and the button next to it working? If so how do you map the buttons and add the additional code to make the screen rotate. i have already got the screen to rotate but i cant map the buttons. Also has anyone test the additional screen outputs?

Blayde

June 16th, 2008, 02:13 AM

Thanks so much for your help on this thread. I've got the circle-with-one-arrow button set to run the rotate script and the touch screen working good enough to be useful.

As far as the wireless goes, the Restricted Hardware Drivers added one called 'wl' that has left me less than satisfied. I don't think WPA or WEP work and I'm hoping that it's the reason I can't get a shell when I ssh to other computers (although I have no idea why a borked network driver would cause ssh to not work).

The two screen buttons (one with two arrows and the other like a gear) I can't get to work either. They don't show up in xev so I guess they need an entire driver just to use two buttons *grumble

One last thing, what is the status of the remote control thing? I figured it would just do the same thing as the keyboard but it doesn't even do anything on mine... Is there some IR stuff i need to install to make it work?

mika_aus

June 16th, 2008, 02:34 AM

THe remote works out of the box. It runs in Jukebox

Blayde

June 16th, 2008, 02:08 PM

Alright, I feel silly now. The remote does in fact work - it just came with a bad battery.

I'm pretty sure the wl wireless driver breaks my ssh: It doesn't happen when I'm using a wired connection. I suppose I should file a bug on launchpad... I'd like to use ndis for the time being but I'm running hardy-amd64 and haven't had any luck finding 64-bit windows xp drivers...

to get the dvd and circle-with-one-arrow buttons working read this
http://aldeby.org/blog/index.php/en-hp-pavilion-multimedia-buttons-configuration-under-linux-linux-quickplay.html

like i said before the other two buttons will most likely need a driver

Wolvenhaven

June 18th, 2008, 05:51 PM

tempo500

June 18th, 2008, 07:29 PM

hi,
i finaly got to upgrade to hardy, everything is going much smoother than gutsy. thanks to all posting their solutions! i am running the latest nvidia betas, because all the opengl stuff in autodesk maya wont work with the stable one... i still have 1 open issue.

i bound screen rotation and undo to the (physical) screen buttons. works great! but they dont if the lid closed(with the screen up). anyway... i would like it much more if the screen would flip automaticaly 180 when i turn and shut the lid.

thanks again, phil

joutsen

June 19th, 2008, 06:33 AM

On getting the suspend to work:

At least on the tx2020eo version, suspend works (2 test cases) by adding "noapic nolapic irqfixup" to the kernel parameters. No other changes to the standard Ubuntu install seem to be necessary.

If you have not added kernel parameters before:
Parameters can be added to /boot/grub/menu.lst, at the end of each kernel command line. (And reboot.)

amba

June 19th, 2008, 01:59 PM

hi,
i just tried to compile myself the wacom-thing to get stylus working, when typing:
./configure --enable-wacom
i get this error:
checking for C compiler default output file name... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

I'm new at Kubuntu, just installed it few days ago.
Linux kernel headers are installed, no clue why gcc should'nt create execs :(
Thanks!

EDIT:
ok, i'm noob, i can't read.
Didn't set up the proper environment. My error was about build-essential :oops:

amba

June 22nd, 2008, 11:53 PM

Hello again,
i got almost everything working!
Thank you very much guys, this forum rox!!

I got a trouble with rotation script, it doesn't work at all.
If i type in shell (as user or root, it's same)

:~# xrandr -o left

i get this error:

X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 158 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 2 (RRSetScreenConfig)
Serial number of failed request: 12
Current serial number in output stream: 12

There ain't more info in Xorg.0.log * user.log * /var/log/messages * dmesg

Do you know why it happens?

joutsen

June 23rd, 2008, 01:58 AM

amba, have you restarted the X server?

amba

June 23rd, 2008, 11:48 AM

ehm..
i think i've read all the post in this thread, but i missed TomtheWombat's one, number #73.
It was xorg.conf setting, now fixed. Thank you

mirosol

June 24th, 2008, 03:06 AM

Hi again.
My post at finnish forums paid out (original finnish thread is here (http://forum.ubuntu-fi.org/index.php?topic=18172.0)) (thanks to you also, joutsen). I managed to get TomTheWombat's wacom installation working, as well as almost everything else.

I Have only those two dead buttons, that don't seem to wake up. Everything else is working great.

I even got this script from mgonber (http://mirosol.kapsi.fi/tx2020/rotation.sh.txt) to rotate stylus and screen 90 degrees clockwise at the same time.

I finally had time to translate that finnish post to english, so here's my howto (http://mirosol.kapsi.fi/tx2020/tx2000howto.htm) in english.

Thank yous to everyone, who helped me.

joutsen

June 24th, 2008, 05:39 AM

This thread is starting to be too long...

Was there a "final" solution for calibrating the touchscreen for finger use?

Thanks,
+ Mikael

mirosol

June 24th, 2008, 06:13 AM

Didn't find anything yet, but my best guess is to calibrate it manually. Like TomTheWombat's original stylus calibration... Which works perfectly. At least for me.

I think it would be enough to get it disabled, but don't know how to do that either... Sometime ago someone tried, with no permanent results on this thread.

Ok.

I added manual calibrations that someone posted on this thread earlier.

Check my xorg.conf. Works ok with that.

majo

June 25th, 2008, 02:29 AM

Since I updated ubuntu (after new installation) I have problems with my mouse on touchpad (tx2000z)

For example

I open firefox then I land on some page that I can scroll down if I hit down arrow it goes all the way down. Duno why?

Btw I installed everything from first page and fallowed everything from page 1-17 :) everything else works great. Oh only thing that I notice is if I hit mute button its not changing the light to amber, but that does not bother me that much.

Please help me with above issue. Thank you.

gali98

June 25th, 2008, 10:50 AM

Hey guys!
Siennalizard has started a thread and I have also helped to get a comprehensive tutorial on the tx2000 series....
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=837657
Just letting you know that If you need some help you may also check out there.
Also this may interest the Wacom Fans:

Thanks for all this. Hold off on the Wacom work: I have been in touch with the developers, and they're going to be updating their driver to support this tablet any day.

Siennalizard told me this. Maybe we can see some good calibration very soon. Cheers,
Kory

eeg710

June 26th, 2008, 10:41 PM

Hi all,

First off, thanks for your help with getting most everything else working. I'm still having some trouble with the Wacom driver. I think I've tracked down the problem to its source, but I don't know how to fix it.

When I run ./configure --enable-wacom as in Wombat's guide, it can't find "ncurses.h" so it won't install most of the build options. I can post the entire output if you need it, just let me know. Does anybody know of a fix for this?

Thanks in advance,

Ian

gali98

June 28th, 2008, 12:33 AM

Hey Guys just updating something from my previous post (sorry Ian but I can't help you but I'm sure someone can! :))
I spoke of the updated wacom for tablets like ours.
I found the link to the mailing list discussing it in case anyone was interested.

http://www.nabble.com/Wacom-tablet-USB-touchscreen-on-HP-TX2130ea-td18059563.html

The part that interested me was when he talks about rewriting the protocol. Sounds good to me! Hope it comes soon. Thanks,
Kory

pAt84

July 12th, 2008, 05:45 PM

Well, am I the only one who is having issues with standby? I did all the stuff from the wiki (change the two lines in the file and add NvAGP to X's config file). However, it still will not do the trick. Hibernating works fine but for standby the display just does not turn back on. Same happens when I close the lid but at least here I can turn it on again with some ALT+CTRL+F1/F7 magic. I tried several different boot parameters without success.

Pat

dharivs

July 13th, 2008, 10:35 AM

Hi,

Thanks a lot for your great work! I followed all your posts and now I have my tx2000es working like a charm... Well, there are a few issues:

- Hight load cycle count: it was at 200!! With hdparm -B 254 (or 255) it works well, but the hdd gets a little hotter than usual (before: 48, after: 50).
- Life battery: I cannot get more than one hour and half of battery life.

I installed powertop from Intel and I get that the 50% of consumption comes from ehci_hcd:usb2, which is this: "Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04b4:6560 Cypress Semiconductor Corp. CY7c65640 USB-2.0 "Tetrahub"".

I will try to disable it, and test... I wonder if it will affect only to the card reader.

If someone knows how to improve the battery life, can you post some advises?

Thanks a lot!

mrumble

July 23rd, 2008, 02:20 AM

I have read through a lot of these forums and found that people are having problems with CPU scaling while on battery. I'm having the OPPOSITE problem... on current I'm stuck at 2.2GHz (both processors). When I unplug, it immediately jumps into whatever scaling settings I have set.

Thoughts? Ideas?

TorchlightJay

July 25th, 2008, 10:12 PM

Hey, is anyone else having problems with their wireless and kernel 2.6.24-20-generic? Any ideas as to what's wrong?

gali98

July 26th, 2008, 01:31 AM

I did a while back.... I am on rt. What I did was go in synaptic and do a manual downgrade and locked it. After a while the module package was updated and it worked again... Hope that helps... :)
BTW...

The linux-wacom dev package has been updated to 0.8.1.1 (the source not a .deb or anything) which includes real support for usb tablet pc's. (see my above post)
I compiled it without any packages and the tablet part worked in about two minutes.
I had to calibrate the touch myself but it only took less than ten or so minutes.
For some reason wacomcpl is broken in some way, but I think someone submitted a patch or something on it.
Anyway thought I would let y'all know. It works great...
Well, actually the pressure on the pen is messed up. it jumps up to max in the at middle pressure then starts coming down again. I am going to file a bug report or something.
Have a good Day!

Kory

TomtheWombat

July 26th, 2008, 06:30 AM

The open-source 'wl' driver appears to support our broadcom chipset now. This driver will load instead of the ndiswrapper driver. 'wl' does not appear to work with WAP encryption. I'm not sure about WEP... You could probably blacklist wl and force ndiswrapper to load..

ztidwell

July 26th, 2008, 08:26 PM

If anyone is still having the problem with having to press Alt + F1 then Alt + F7 when the screen is turned off, I found a solution here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=780996).

tempo500

July 27th, 2008, 05:28 AM

did anybody get the omke.pl to work? it should enable the lid buttons even when its shut/tablet mode. http://sourceforge.net/projects/omke/

it starts fine with "sudo ./omke.pl -k 1" the feedback is:
"HP Omnibook multimedia/onetouch keys enabled."
unfortunately the buttons disable again when i shut the lid.

ps.: the buttons work fine when the lid is open.

gali98

July 27th, 2008, 02:39 PM

I have written a short tutorial on how to get the stylus and touchscreen working with a new version of linuxwacom made for Usb tablets.
This way you don't have to apply patches....
go here to see
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5469447#post5469447
Kory

ztidwell

July 28th, 2008, 02:42 AM

unfortunately the buttons disable again when i shut the lid.

My buttons worked with the lid open right out of the box.

I was able to get the buttons working when the lid is closed by updating to the latest bios from HP.

gali98

July 29th, 2008, 08:19 AM

My buttons worked with the lid open right out of the box.

I was able to get the buttons working when the lid is closed by updating to the latest bios from HP.

How did you update the bios? (no floppy drive)
I doubt I will but just want to know for the future...
Do you have to do it through vista?

Kory

ztidwell

July 29th, 2008, 09:58 PM

How did you update the bios? (no floppy drive)
I doubt I will but just want to know for the future...
Do you have to do it through vista?

Kory

Yeah, I downloaded the HP flash app and ran it from Vista.

FakeOutdoorsman

July 29th, 2008, 10:13 PM

How did you update the bios? (no floppy drive)
I doubt I will but just want to know for the future...
Do you have to do it through vista?

Kory
I did it by following this thread:
HOWTO: Flash BIOS, The Ubuntu Way (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=318789)

tempo500

July 30th, 2008, 03:52 AM

thats interesting... just got my laptop back from hp, thei updated the bios for me because of nvidias heat problem... which bios version are you using? still having problems with those buttons. dont do me any good if they just work with an open lid... thanks phil

gali98

July 30th, 2008, 08:35 AM

Wait a second... What buttons are you talking about?

The DVD and Quickplay (or whatever it was) buttons work....

I don't guess I have tried the media buttons on the side....

Kory

ztidwell

July 31st, 2008, 12:16 AM

My DVD and quickplay buttons always worked, but they stopped working if I converted the laptop to tablet mode. The bios update fixed that.

tempo500

July 31st, 2008, 04:00 AM

yes the dvd and the button bellow(circle arrow) the media buttons on the outside worked out of the box.
i mapped the rotation script and a undo command onto the buttons, which works great, they just refuse to work when the lid is shut/ in tablet mode. i had my tx2140 in service two time because the gpu was heating up to 110 degrees. there was a press release from nvidia because of faulty gpus... the first time hp changed the heatsink and fan, which did not work, then they changed the motherboard and updated the bios. so i am not sure if i want to touch the bios right now, beause my current one changed the speed of the fans so it doesnt overheat. did you notice after your bios update that the fans spinn faster? thanks, phil

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "TwinView" "0"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
Option "RandRRotation"
Option "metamodes" "DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
EndSection

sudo apt-get install xbindkeys xvkbd
sudo cp tx2000 alternative.sh /usr/bin
gedit ~/.xbindkeysrc
"WacomRotate.sh"
c:0xed
"xvkbd -text "\Cz""
c:0xcd
testing
xbindkeys -v
System --> Preferences --> Session
xbindkeys

TomtheWombat

July 31st, 2008, 09:51 AM

I upgraded the bios recently, and I have also noticed that the fans are spinning faster/more often.. It is rather annoying.

marvlowe

July 31st, 2008, 11:26 AM

I'm trying to get my broadcom wireless card to work on HP Pavilion 6000 laptop. It was working with proprietary driver B43 but I can no longer connect with it. I tried using the windows xp driver with Ndiswrapper. I downloaded sp34152.exe from HP site and following your instructions using cabextract I get the following:
marv@marv-laptop:~$ sudo cabextract sp34152.exe
[sudo] password for marv:
sudo: cabextract: command not found

I'm have 64bit Hardy 8.04 kernel 2.6.24-19-generic. Is this command not available in this version? Am I just doing something wrong?

Marv

pAt84

July 31st, 2008, 02:14 PM

well, this thread is for the tx2000z. However, you are just missing the program cabextract here. Install it!

sudo apt-get install cabextract

Pat

gali98

August 4th, 2008, 10:32 PM

I have updated my tutorial again and everything is working almost perfect..
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5469447#post5469447

check it out..
Kory

SeanBlader

August 8th, 2008, 01:29 AM

I have three things.

Crashed under suspend this afternoon which apparently corrupted the whole ubuntu partition, so grub couldn't get to the menu.lst. Something about an error saying superblock was bad. I ended up reinstalling, no lost data, just about 4 hours of effort in getting the OS back to where I wanted it. But now I have a SuperGrub CD ready to boot to back to Vista in an emergency.

Other than that, I love this thread. I was just brave enough to try hibernate and the system came back up which is encouraging.

And I think this thread should be more prominent at the top of the forum.

Actually I do have a few issues. The stylus is always dragging on the touchscreen, and touching the touchscreen definitely needs calibration. I'm using the 8.1-2 wacom driver, which I haven't tried to find the calibration utility for, but on the previous install when I ran it, it didn't read any touches at all, who's got tips for those elements?

On top of that, what's good to touch the screen for other than the Gimp and CellWriter?

Murphy2712

August 14th, 2008, 05:12 AM

I've a new problem : my microphone doesn't record sound anymore.
My soundcard works and I can hear something if I tap in the microphone but skype or twinkle can't hear something (it worked one month ago! I don't know if I made something wrong or if it's a bad update...)

Any hint ?

My modprobe is "snd-hda-intel model=hp" or "snd-hda-intel index=0 model=3stack position_fix=0 single_cmd=0".

gali98

August 14th, 2008, 04:51 PM

Well the second one should work.....
Really none of the models for this sound are complete for our breed of laptop.
First, you are on a tx2000 series right?
Second you cannot have both entries... you might want to check...
third make sure you are completely updated....
if it still doesn't work, you might want to reinstall the package
linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-19-generic
also I am working on writing some code for the driver that will autodetect our laptop and map all the inputs right...
I have the autodetect part (that was really easy) and now I am working the mapping part (the very very hard part).... I am not a coder, but I think I can do it....
I don't really have to code it, it is more of a problem-solving thing...
But don't hold your breathe, school is about to start and work is getting hectic so it may be many weeks.......
Kory

Murphy2712

August 17th, 2008, 11:32 AM

I use Debian Lenny, TX2050EF.
I'm using the driver "hp" OR "3stack" without any difference : sound works but microphone doesn't (since one month).
The last Debian kernel are 2.6.24-7 and 2.6.25-7 : also no microphone.
Maybe I'll try to boot with Vista to see if it's not an hardware problem...

gali98

August 18th, 2008, 10:13 PM

did you use the full line:

snd-hda-intel index=0 model=3stack position_fix=0 single_cmd=0

in /etc/modprobe.d/alsabase

and restart?

this should make the mic work.
Kory

SirKnight

August 22nd, 2008, 12:20 PM

One of the last things I would very much like is pressure sensitivity in Flash. Through http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=25151 I set up pressure sensitivity easily in GIMP, which is great. I'd very much like to get the same effect in Flash. I'm using Wine to run MX 2004. Flash detects the tablet, but the pressure seems locked at the minimum possible, smaller than the thinnest brush stroke. There doesn't seem to be device preferences in the same way GIMP has them, so if anyone has any advised next steps or knows the solution, that would be incredibly helpful.

gali98

August 22nd, 2008, 06:34 PM

you might try here...

http://www.ehow.com/how_2182838_use-graphics-tablet-flash.html

Kory

TorchlightJay

August 24th, 2008, 01:09 PM

Hey everyone,
I have one question. I have those two new kernels ending in 20 and 21 and my wireless doesn't work. Anyone overcome this product yet?

gali98

August 24th, 2008, 03:00 PM

try and downgrade the module package to an earlier package.
This happened a while back for the rt kernel modules and I downgraded. The next update fixed it.
Kory

SirKnight

August 24th, 2008, 05:59 PM

you might try here...

http://www.ehow.com/how_2182838_use-graphics-tablet-flash.html

Kory

Not that simple, sadly. I don't really know why, but somewhere along the line, either Wine or Flash doesn't understand the screen's pressure input. It recognises it's there, but cannot read the pressure from the stylus. Hmm.

psycodrumfreak

August 25th, 2008, 08:51 PM

I'm still having problems with my sound. I've tried appending
options snd-hda-intel model=hp
to the end of alsa-base and restarting it, but to no avail. I'm using a tx2000 with 8.04 Hardy Ubuntu. Any suggestions?

Reading over this forum over and over again, it occurred to me that my chipset is not Intel, it's the AMD 2.4 x 2. Also, I am tri-booting this laptop with Vista, Xp, and Ubuntu. all of which are on separate partitions. Do I need to designate a number after hda, and if so, corresponding to what? Also do i need to change intel to amd or nvidia. (Since hardware tester says my card is nvidia)

Well, after reattempting the tutorial on this thread, I'm not sure if reinstalling the nvidia drivers for the VGA display part changed anything or i restarted the computer instead of alsa-utils. Either way my sound is now working.

However i am running into a problem with the wireless. Not so much that it doesn't work...I can locate the wireless networks and the one that I have access to, I cannot complete a connection with it. I did install ndiswrapper following my upgrade to 8.04, But i'm not seeing much of a difference. The router is a D-Link Dl-624. Any other suggestions?

MadCoder

August 27th, 2008, 07:24 AM

I updated my instructions with the patch for touchscreen support! I noticed that it issues a button down command before it moves the cursor, though. Be careful because it will start dragging things all over.

I'm sorry to rise the question again, but I was unable to fix this myself... I got touch & stylus & eraser fully functional and calibrated, but this bug is really nasty and I cant find why it happens/how to fix this. If you need any more info - just ask.

BTW I had to choose between microphone and correctly coloured mute button. I chosen model=3stack and orange mutebutton for now, but IMHO it is a hack.

gali98

August 27th, 2008, 06:55 PM

What version are you on (linux-wacom)?

Here is my tutorial for the newest version....
everything works...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5469447#post5469447
try it...
Kory

MadCoder

August 28th, 2008, 06:10 AM

I managed to get some ugly sound-like thing from internal mic (problem was in amplification settings). But it really sucks when you have to talk really loudly so that your voice gets to the recordg software(skype). And also, this breaks normal colors for mute button=( So imho it is all a great hack, since in vista it worked fine. The damned file following.

options snd_hda_intel index=0 model=3stack position_fix=0 single_cmd=0

PS: IMHO since alsa is a kernel driver suse/ubuntu means nothing.

gali98

August 28th, 2008, 05:49 PM

That nasty input white noise is a driver issue. I think for whatever reason it is mapping something to input that shouldn't be there. You can't mute it. It does not come from any microphone. As soon as I track it down in the driver source I can fix it, but I am not a coder, and with school going the way it is, it may not be until spring break.

What I suggest doing is getting on the alsa forum or mailing list (mailing list would be better...) and telling them about it. Give them the module (snd-hda-intel) and do
> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 >codec
then upload the file it makes (codec)
They might be able to fix it real easily. I'm not a coder so I'm not sure :)

Here is my codec file if you want to upload it too....

Also if they do help you and need testers, pm me and I will give you my email.

and I will be happy to help. I just don't have a lot of time, and I am working on the tablet part right now....
Thanks,
Kory

MadCoder

September 9th, 2008, 02:54 PM

Hehe. sorry was afk for some time. if u need any help with tablet - you can pm me and i'll give my mail/jabber/icq. About alsa.. i just dont want to waste any more time. anyway while not at home i use external mic wich works just fine=) and at home i do not use notebook=) However, here is the file.

MadCoder

September 14th, 2008, 12:41 PM

People of Ubuntu! If you have this laptop, and 64 bit kernel (i hope you have), you can do two things. First, upgrade to latest linuxwacom driver, it works out of the box with no patches , but with option --enable-xserver64 to configure.
Also, you can abandon windows NDIS driver and use bcm43. To do so you should download latest firmware package from openwrt.org or using nice scriptie install-bcm43-firmware (i am unsure if it installs in ubuntu by default...) bcm43 is a separate kernel module and you should build your own kernel with it (install the ssb driver also), or just install it with package manager. For now it fails to use maximim possible txpower(32 dbm), however i could not see any difference. powersave features work ok.
If you need any info on this - contact me. If you use 32 bit kernel USE NDISWRAPPER!
Good luck=)

gali98

September 14th, 2008, 04:00 PM

Actually it does not use b43 (at least on the tx2000) but the wl driver.
This is because the specific device is not yet working with the b43 driver.
However it does everything you descirbe and does use the firmware files.
If you just use the restricted drivers it will work on both bits. (32 and 64 :))
I think it is put out by broadcom directly.
This driver (wl) works on both 32 and 64bit (at least for me) and wpa works (at least on 64, I have not tried it on 32)

For a full tutorial on the wacom tablet part (including touch) please see my tutorial:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=5469447#post5469447

Just don't anyone to be confused :P
Kory

ACLBandit

September 15th, 2008, 06:14 PM

Just found out something good: I *finally* got my CPU frequency scaling to move higher than 800 MHz on AC Power!

All you need to do is the following. I have no idea if this is considered "good" or "safe," but it worked and I'm happy.

1)Alt-F2
2)Type gconf-editor, press enter
3)Click down to apps-->gnome-power-manager-->cpufreq
4)Change the value of performance_ac to "100"
5)Change the value of policy_ac to "performance

My CPU frequency is now the full, much-yearned-for 2.2GHz. Yaaay! ^_^

gali98

September 15th, 2008, 06:55 PM

actually another (probably safer) way to do this is to open a terminal and do

sudo dpkg-reconfigure gnome-applets

then hit yes when asked.

Now if you add the cpu frequency scaling monitor

(rightclick on top bar -> add to panel -> drag cpu frequency scaling monitor to where you want it)

and click on it, you can change scaling/modes.

Have fun...
Kory

I would keep it on ondemand, unless this does not allow full potential. Also a note:
on the tx2000z, whenever I am on battery, it does not allow me over 800 MHz (per core) no matter what I do.....
Hope this helps. Also if you do this, I suggest changing the setting back to whatever it was before....

Note about selecting the yes, here is a problem (that I don't worry about)

Bug #17604 :

Oh, please, not another setuid root application if we can avoid it. Which file does cpufreq-selector need access to to change the CPU speed? And why should a normal user be able to change the CPU speed in the first place? The automatic CPU speed works well enough for the majority of users, and control freaks can always use sudo to manually set the speed, or deliberately shoot themselves in the foot by making the binary suid root (as explained in README.Debian).

MurDoK

September 19th, 2008, 05:16 AM

Hey folks, I hope the 800MHz-stuck-on-battery-mode is fixed for Intrepid.
Meanwhile, could someone confirm this bug in launchpad?
Thanks in advance!

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/271973

ir0nman

September 22nd, 2008, 11:11 PM

Has anyone got suspend to work reliably yet? I don't care so much about hibernate, I would prefer to have the standby ability. Anyway, just haven't seen anything about it lately, but lots of people have complained about the problems. Thanks in advance guys.

Thanks,
-Rick

Cyborg_572

September 23rd, 2008, 02:00 AM

I haven't tried this myself, but you could probably fix the cp set to 800 mhz on battery problem by turning of the limit cpu to 800 mhz when on battery option in the BIOS settings

gali98

September 23rd, 2008, 06:37 PM

On tx2000z I updated My bios to the latest version (in my vista partition) and used the options
noapic nolapic irqfixup
on boot and both Suspend and Hibernate work. Sometimes when I hibernate it doesn't shutdown completely or it restarts.. It's weird, but when you boot up it still goes back to its previous state.
Suspend is also a little wierd. If you shut the lid, it doesn't put it in suspend, but If you open it then close it back, it does....
Not to bad to deal with....
Kory

ir0nman

September 25th, 2008, 12:32 AM

Adding those options seems to have worked for me, thanks!!!

MurDoK

September 25th, 2008, 09:00 AM

I haven't tried this myself, but you could probably fix the cp set to 800 mhz on battery problem by turning of the limit cpu to 800 mhz when on battery option in the BIOS settings

I don't think it's a bios limit since as you can read in my bug report, unloading and reloading certain modules, it works.

@gali98:
Aren't you experiencing this problem too? If so, please confirm the bug and maybe it will be fixed for Intrepid release :).
Leaving a 'me too' comment would be enough. Thanks in advance

gali98

September 25th, 2008, 06:54 PM

Yes I am. but only on battery power... I can check that bios setting, but I doubt that is it. I doubt it will be fixed in intrepid, but it depends on how much attention your bug generates and how easy it is to fix :)
Bug confirmed at launchpad!

@ir0nman - Welcome!:)

Kory

MurDoK

September 25th, 2008, 07:27 PM

gali98

September 26th, 2008, 05:31 PM

Oh dear... this "workaround" is not good. Whatever modules it unloads and loads.. Well basically it kills it.
There must not be any temperature monitoring, because after maybe 20 minutes of doing this all of a sudden my laptop died.
Just shutoff without warning, and it was very, very hot.
So I am going to post that at the launchpad. I do not suggest doing that anymore as it could be very harmful to our precious lappies...
Kory

MurDoK

September 27th, 2008, 03:29 PM

I'm sorry about that:( but at the moment I haven't had any behaviour similar to that :confused:

gali98

September 28th, 2008, 02:51 PM

hmmm.... What laptop are you on?

I was playing a game, and that was probably the cause.
I don't use any kind of cooler and the game is pretty intensive.
That is the only thing that it could be, as it has never done it before, and never after even after hours of playing that game.
I just didn't want anybody to kill their laptop :)
It did work though :P
Kory

pooyaplus

October 4th, 2008, 08:37 AM

Hi,
I actually asked this question in another thread regarding wacom under hardy, but I guess heres' the place to get the answer.

Have you guys managed to get the right click working for the pen? I can not either play around with multiple objects easily.

I think the solutions I have tested so far regarding the tx2000 and the touchscreen functionality is limited to a point-and-click function for a single object.

Any ideas?

pooyaplus

October 5th, 2008, 06:40 AM

Anyone going to test the right click functionality?

gali98

October 5th, 2008, 02:51 PM

Yes right click is working.
Just use wacomcpl. (as in open up the terminal and write wacomcpl and press enter)
You can select what button is for what styulus action and a few extra stuff.

Also I'm not sure what you mean "for a single object"?
Explain a little futher.
Kory

pooyaplus

October 6th, 2008, 04:43 AM

Well in that case, I'm in business, as there is no device to choose from the list in wacomcpl :)

By single object I mean a single pdf file, for example, or anything else on the desktop.

gali98

October 6th, 2008, 05:02 PM

Please upload your xorg.conf and I will have a looksie at it.
And on the single object do you mean that you are trying to click on two files at once?
Or are you just trying to click and drag with the box and multiselect?
Kory

pooyaplus

October 7th, 2008, 04:29 AM

Kory,
Here is the xorg.conf attached. But I guess the problem is with the synaptic touchpad device. As it is not configured yet :popcorn:

gali98

October 7th, 2008, 01:11 PM

Okay I uploaded a version that should work. I also tried to fix the synaptics pad.
Kory

pooyaplus

October 7th, 2008, 02:52 PM

Thanks for that, will test it asap. By the way, how did you fix the pad? I mean I may need to install something to get the scroll working. Right?

gali98

October 7th, 2008, 05:38 PM

No... You had the pad configured as a normal device. I added it under the driver synaptic.
Kory

pooyaplus

October 8th, 2008, 04:53 AM

Kory,
Thanks for the fix. But the xmodmap still isnot working. The key bindings seems to be correct. I saw that window once, when I set the keys weeks ago and that disappeared in a blink of eye. Well at least I think I saw that, or may be that was just a deja vu. Anywhere else than Gconf you know to set the keys to bind the keys?

Thanks for the xconf fix again.

pooyaplus

October 8th, 2008, 04:53 AM

Kory,
Thanks for the fix. But the xmodmap still is not working. The key bindings seems to be correct. I saw that window once, when I set the keys weeks ago and that disappeared in a blink of eye. Well at least I think I saw that, or may be that was just a deja vu. Anywhere else than Gconf you know to set the keys to bind the keys?

Thanks for the xconf fix again.

pooyaplus

October 8th, 2008, 07:46 AM

Here is what wacomcpl command show. (see the attachement)
:confused:

gali98

October 8th, 2008, 05:24 PM

Okay... I'll post about the xmodmap stuff at the other post.. Sorry for taking so long....

Anyway I need you to run these commands

cd ~/Desktop

rm -r linuxwacom-0.8.1-4

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/linuxwacom/linuxwacom-0.8.1-4.tar.bz2

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxi-dev x11proto-input-dev xserver-xorg-dev tk8.4-dev tcl8.4-dev libncurses5-dev

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get remove wacom-tools xserver-xorg-input-wacom

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic

tar xjvf linuxwacom-0.8.1-4.tar.bz2

cd linuxwacom-0.8.1-4

./configure --enable-wacom

make

sudo make install

sudo rmmod wacom

sudo cp ./src/2.6.24/wacom.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/input/tablet/wacom.ko

(if you are on Intrepid or the 2.6.27 kernel, you need to change 2.6.24 to 2.6.26)

sudo depmod -e

sudo modprobe wacom

See if that works. Also reupload your xorg just to make sure we did not miss anything.

Also are you on the tx2000 or tx2500?

Kory

pooyaplus

October 11th, 2008, 03:49 AM

Kory,
I have already done those steps to get the touchscreen working. And the wacom seems to work flawlessly. The only problem is the wacomcpl and the xmodmap! I am now using the xorg.conf that you uploaded in the previous posts. And I am on tx2000z US model.

The xmodmap and keybinding for the elisa works until you logout of the system or restart it; then it's gone.

pooyaplus

October 11th, 2008, 07:12 AM

Hi again,
touchpad setting in System>Preferences>Touchapd says:

GSynaptics couldn't initialize.
You have to set 'SHMConfig' 'true' in xorg.conf or XF86Config to use GSynaptics

How should I use the XF86config to use the gsynaptics or is it better just to simply set that xorg option to ture?

pooyaplus

October 11th, 2008, 07:58 AM

Kory,
here are the xorg.conf files; the first one is my previous OLD setting and the latter is the one you gave me. I finally managed to get the key bindings working, not sure if it works after another boot up or not.

Anyways, the touchscreen pointing is not tuned when rotated, no matter in which position it is. Only the normal position gives me the correct pointing. May be that's due to the omission of the stylus 2, 3, and 4 in your xorg.conf setting?!

gali98

October 11th, 2008, 11:38 PM

Wow you've been busy :)
Sorry it has taken me this long to answer, but I have been short of time lately...
First on the synaptics issue, you will have to use the xorg.conf option as xf86config is not compiled on ubuntu. (it should be I think, but when xorg is built for ubuntu, they do not use the option to build it... don't ask me :))

and reason I ask you to basically redo the tutorial is because the devices were not showing up in wacomcpl, which they should be.
Do they still not show up? If they do, you can calibrate touch and the stylus there.
If not, you probably need to run the tutorial again...

As far as rotation.. I am not sure what you mean...
Do you have the script that most people are using?
upload whatever script you have and I can fix it also.
The nameing convention of PCStlyus1 and so on is outdated.
the stylus, touch, eraser way works a lot better.
the script may call PCStylus1 or whatever to rotate when it should be calling touch and stylus to rotate. Just upload that.

On the .Xmodmap not loading that may be a problem.
here is what I suggest you do.
Rename that file to something else. (so that /home/yourusername/.Xmodmap
does not exist)

then restart.
Move it back ((so that /home/yourusername/.Xmodmap does exist)
remember, it is case sensative.

then restart again and see if that gui loads, and make sure that the Xmodmap file is loaded. If it does still does not work, you can probably just add the xmodmap loading command you use to the session.
I think I have answered everything I can for now..... :)
Post back and we will go from there.
Kory

pooyaplus

October 12th, 2008, 04:41 AM

Kory,
I appreciate that, and I understand as I've been really busy these days, and getting this laptop to work was an extra burden these weeks.

Anyways, I have gone through this tutorial, from linux on laptops website:
http://mirosol.kapsi.fi/tx2020/tx2000howto.htm

but with the newest stable packages. And that's where the stylus 1,2,.. came from.

The only difference between the xorg.conf I have been using recently and yours; is that of the rotation screen dimensions being defined in the stylus 1, 2, 3, and 4. (I guess so ;))

I see your point to redo the work and maybe I have to do it over again; but if I could set the rotated screen size and dimensions that would be a relief in these busy days.

pooyaplus

October 14th, 2008, 05:57 AM

Kory,
attached is the rotation.sh file that handles the rotation of the screen and resolution changes. The key bindings are now working, not sure of the reason behind their previous behavior.

There is actually another problem that is driving me crazy when I am on my laptop, and that is the cursor jumps!! It always jumps to a fixed spot at the bottom corner of the screen; Where the firefox's weather forecast plugin is located.

Have anyone seen such a thing before? Or maybe there is a problem somewhere else with this bloody laptop.

gali98

October 14th, 2008, 05:30 PM

Yes I know exaclty what you are talking about!!
If you weren't aware, 0.8.1-5 came out a couple days ago and I think it fixed most of this...
Just visit my tutorial for exact instructions...
Basically download it, configure it, make it, make install it, and then copy the module over and restart....

anyway on the other problem...

a better way to do rotation is with a daemon...
I found this source file on the net one day and it works great. Not only does it rotate, but is does some stuff with resolution so that it looks better.
I uploaded the source file below.
All you need to do is download it to you desktop.
Then run
sudo apt-get install libxrandr-dev
and then
gcc -lX11 -lXrandr -o .rotate.bin rotate.c
mv .rotate.bin ~/

then go to System->Preferences->Sessions
and add a new one with the command /home/yourusername/.rotate.bin
with whatever name you want.
then use the script I uploaded (just paste it all over the script you already have so you won't have to mess with gconf-editor agian :))
after that just log out then log back in and test it to make sure it works..
Kory

pooyaplus

October 15th, 2008, 06:49 AM

Kory,
Thanks for the info, I will get the 0.8.1-5 and will do a fresh cofig as soon as I find some time just for myself :)

Would you do me a favor and attach the bin file in a new post again. I could not spot that file in your previous posts as this thread is getting too big to navigate through. :popcorn:

Pooya

pooyaplus

October 15th, 2008, 07:40 AM

All right, I finally did a fresh config. I got the new 0.8.1-5 and did the necessary steps, almost learned to heart as I have gone through it almost 100 times so far:)

All I need is the rotate.bin to get the rotations to work. Hopefully.

gali98

October 15th, 2008, 01:12 PM

lol I forgot to attach it...
I will have to wait until I get home though. I am at work now. Just wait a few more hours :)
Kory

gali98

October 15th, 2008, 07:44 PM

Okay I am now uploading the source file. Just use the instuctions in my previous post to get it working :)
You need to rename it to rotate.c
Kory

pooyaplus

October 16th, 2008, 06:05 AM

Well, I followed the steps for that C binary rotation file, bit I did not really understand the difference between this one and my own shell script. For both you need to bind the key to get it working. Where the daemon comes to play its role?

By the way, the key binding functionality is gone again. I just renamed the key binding command to .rotate.bin, does that suffice?

gali98

October 16th, 2008, 06:06 PM

Oh dear.. :)
No you should have left the keybind the way it was.
The way the daemon works is that the new script (the one I said I would upload then forgot twice :)) only calls the display to rotate. (not the tablet parts)
The daemon detects this and then rotates the tablet and does a little magic with gnome to get some better graphics.

So here is what you should do now..

First, change your keybinding to how it was before.
Next put the binary file (the file you made from the source) in you home folder named .rotate.bin
now go to System->Preferences->Sessions
and add a new one with the command /home/yourusername/.rotate.bin
with whatever name you want.

Next open up your existing script then download the script I uploaded (the actual one :))
and just copy and paste it over your existing one and save it.
Then log out and log back in.
And that is it.

Kory